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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2000
Brian L. Harden, Norman, OK (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A roller and belt conveyor system with several roller assemblies supporting a plurality of conveyor belt sections for conveying articles. Each conveyor belt section circumvents and is supported by at least two roller assemblies. Each roller assembly has a powered rotating shaft supporting several adjacent loose fit rollers with inner diameters greater than the outer diameter of the rotating shaft allowing slippage between the loose fit rollers and the power to rotating shaft. Each conveyor belt section circumvents at least one roller assembly that differs from the roller assemblies supporting adjacent conveyor belt sections. The length of the conveyor belt sections is 2&agr;(x+&pgr;r) where x is the distance between the rotational axes of the first and last roller assemblies supporting the conveyor belt section, r is an outer diameter radius of the loose fit roller and &agr; is between about 1.00-1.05.