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Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999

Filed:

Oct. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:

R Thomas Fishaw, Plymouth, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ingersoll-Rand Company, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
19878102 ; 19878104 ;
Abstract

In a power driven roller conveyor having a plurality of rollers mounted on a driven shaft for supporting and transporting a work piece with a limiting drive force. The drive shaft is provided with concentrically disposed spacers, rollers, and bearings which are compressed between an end driving sprocket and an adjustable spring pressure plate on an opposite end and wherein adjustment of the axial compressor force produced by the end mounted spring pressure plate serves to vary the release torque of the individual rollers mounted on the shaft.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Fishaw, R. (1999). Torque limiting roller drive for conveyors (U.S. Patent No. 5881862). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5881862

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