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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1999
Akira Morikiyo, Tokorozawa, JP;
Mitsuo Anzai, Hanno, JP;
Tsubakimoto Chain Co., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A conveyor system includes a drive carrier and a driven carrier movably supported by guide rails via guide rollers rotatably mounted thereon. The drive carrier is connected in driven relation to a conveyor chain. A load-support member composed of a flatbed truck has front and rear engagement plugs removably received in a socket of the driven carrier and a socket of the drive carrier, respectively. The flatbed truck is conveyed in the same direction as the movable carrier while the overall weight of the flatbed truck is supported by the drive and driven carriers. At a curved portion of the conveyance path, the driven carrier is caused to move relative to the drive carrier to cancel out a difference between the length of a part of the curved conveyance path portion between the engagement plugs and the distance of a straight-line between the engagement plugs.