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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2008
Erwin Muller, Durnten, CH;
Erwin Muller, Durnten, CH;
WRH Walter Reist Holding AG, Ermatingen, CH;
Abstract
A drive has a drive unit, wherein the drive unit includes a central body, a drive means, and a driven means circulating around the central body. Conveyor means or objects to be conveyed are able to be conveyed in a driven section of the drive unit along a conveyor path by way of the driven means. The driven means is mounted with respect to the central body by means of a roller body which circulates around the central body in an orbital track. To this end, the driven means rolls on the central body via rollers of the roller body and thereby the roller body transmits radial pressure forces to the central body. The driven means is driven directly by the drive means. The roller body itself is not driven directly by the drive means, but rather it is moved along solely by the rolling of the driven means on the roller body.