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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Marco Willi, Benningen am Neckar, DE;
Boris Buesing, Stuttgart, DE;
Hans-peter Buttau, Lauffen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/53 (2006.01); B65G 21/20 (2006.01); B65G 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A conveyor includes at least one workpiece carrier, a drive provided for the workpiece carrier and defining a plane of conveyance; an inner guide and an outer guide having a curved outer guide section and defining a conveyor track for the workpiece carrier; the inner guide includes a curved inner guide section that is assigned to the curved outer guide section. The convexly curved inner guide section is situated such that it is offset radially inwardly relative to the curved outer guide section and opposite an imagined tangential extension of a first and a second straight inner guide section.