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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110272250 | Method And Apparatus For Tracking Conveyor Belts A conveyor belt tracking apparatus is provided for correcting the travel path of a laterally mistracking conveyor belt. In one form, an elongate tracking roller is rotatably mounted at end portions thereof to a pivotal support frame and extends across and below the belt... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110070001 | Steering Mechanism for Belt Unit A belt unit includes a belt that is rotated, a belt comprising a rib formed on an inner periphery thereof, a plurality of supporting rollers configured to support the belt rotatably, a steering roller configured to contact with the inner periphery of the belt, a sensing... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100116626 | Training Idler A training idler for a conveyor system is disclosed. The idler includes a roller positioned about a shaft and a bearing assembly positioned between the roller and the shaft such that the roller is rotatable about the shaft. A pivot assembly couples the bearing assembly ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100006402 | BELT ALIGNMENT SYSTEM WITH ROTATABLE BUSHING An alignment system for a conveyor having a conveyor belt trained over rollers on a conveyor frame, is provided and includes pivoting members each mounted on a corresponding support bracket, the pivoting members configured for supporting tracking rollers at correspondin... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090294256 | BELT MEANDERING CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME A belt meandering correction apparatus is provided and includes: belt extending rolls that extend an endless-shaped belt member, including a belt meandering correction roll, at least one end part of which is supported in a manner movable in a direction defined by joinin... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090178901 | Guidance unit for conveyor belt A conveyor belt aligning device (1) comprising a support frame (2) mounted on a support beam (3) and being substantially horizontal pivotable about a first axis (4), the support frame (2) comprising a frame formed by a cross member ( 07/16/2009 | |
| 20090166159 | Conveyor A belt conveyor includes right and left detection rollers outside ends in a width direction of a belt. Right and left correction rollers are disposed on right and left sides on a rear face of the belt. When one of the detection rollers is pressed by the belt, the corres... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090090603 | Automatic Belt Tracking System In an aspect of the present invention, a system and method are provided that detect belt mis-tracking and in response, automatically adjusts. In some implementations, the system and method are implemented in conjunction with a weigh feeder or weigh belt. In other implem... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20080264765 | SKEWED SLAT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ARTICLE CONVEYOR A positive displacement article sorter and method of monitoring a positive displacement article sorter, wherein the article sorter includes a frame, an endless web traveling in a longitudinal direction about the frame and an electric motor driving the endless web. The e... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080073182 | BELT TRACKING REGULATOR A roller assembly for supporting a moving belt and including at least one roller mounted for rotation about a roller axis; and a support arrangement, the roller assembly being mounted on the support arrangement for pivotal displacement about a pivot point, characterized... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20070272520 | SKEWED SLAT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ARTICLE CONVEYOR A skew detection and correction system, and method of correcting skew, in a conveyor system having an endless web that is propelled in a longitudinal direction, includes providing a skew detector and determining if at least some of the cross members of the web are non-p... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070144871 | BELT-CONVEYOR DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A belt-conveyor device includes a detecting unit that detects a belt position in a width direction of the endless belt for a plurality of times within more than a cycle of the endless belt, the width direction being a direction orthogonal to direction of travel of the e... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070062781 | Idler The invention concerns an idler (10) having a shell (12) with at least one core (14) within the shell. The shell has at least one inwardly projecting shell formation (32), and the core has at least one outwardly projecting core formation (... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070045939 | Belt driving mechanism In a belt driving mechanism, an endless belt is wrapped around a driving roller and a driven roller. The endless belt runs between the driving roller and the driven roller. The axis of the driven roller is placed so as to form a certain angle of torsion to a plane conta... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20060289280 | Belt conveyor and image forming apparatus using the same A belt conveyor includes: an endless belt that is looped over a plurality of rollers, the plurality of rollers including a drive roller and a meandering correction roller; a drive unit that rotates the drive roller to drive the endless belt; a meandering correction unit... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060219527 | FLUID OPERATED SELF ALIGNING ROLLER A pressurized bladder system is associated with a first roller. In one embodiment, the conveyor belt extends around the roller which is automatically centered by the bladder. In alternate embodiments, the first roller is positioned adjacent an impression roller with the... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060076217 | Conveyor belt training idler roller assemblies A training idler roller assembly is provided in which the idler roller (6) is adapted to slew in a plane generally parallel to that of the conveyor belt (3) to move one or other ends of the roller (6) in the general direction of travel of the conveyor belt... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060027444 | Fluid operated self aligning roller A pressurized bladder system is associated with a first roller. In one embodiment, the conveyor belt extends around the roller which is automatically centered by the bladder. In alternate embodiments, the first roller is positioned adjacent an impression roller with the... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050263376 | Curved belt conveyor A curved belt conveyor includes at least two zones, each of which may be defined by a motorized roller and at least one idler roller which are positioned along and between opposite sidewalls of the conveyor, and a continuous belt reeved around the rollers. The conveyor ... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050158076 | Method for compensating a gear lash on reverse operation and device for carrying out said method An electrographic printer using a print web medium is provided with a web adjusting apparatus having a geared motor for adjusting the web position. A method and apparatus to compensate for backlash in the geared motor includes a sensor to detect an end position of rotat... | 07/21/2005 |
