| US 7,565,967 B2 | ||
| Self cleaning rotatable member for woven wire mesh conveyor belt | ||
| Robert E. Maine, Jr., Salisbury, Md. (US); George Howard Messick, Jr., East New Market, Md. (US); and Michael Robert Franzoni, Providence, R.I. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Cambridge International, Inc., Cambridge, Md. (US) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 30, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/149,358. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/924109, filed on Apr. 30, 2007. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0000922 A1, Jan. 01, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. B65G 23/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 198—835 [198/834; 198/848] | 19 Claims |
| 1. A conveyor system comprising:
a woven-wire belt assembled from interwoven helically-wound spirals and connector rods, a pair of connector rods being associated
with each helically wound spiral to define open-access recesses of uniform cross-sectional configuration and dimension, said
recesses extending in uniformly spaced locations across a width of said belt; and
at least one rotatable member including an outer cylindrical surface symmetrically disposed relative to a central axis of
rotation of said member and a plurality of spaced, uniformly radially-oriented protrusions on said outer cylindrical surface
for engaging said open-access recesses of said woven-wire belt, each of said protrusions including a parallelogram-shaped
body substantially corresponding to the cross-sectional configuration and dimension of correspondingly-located recesses of
said woven-wire belt;
wherein said at least one rotatable member includes a hollow tubular member and the outer cylindrical surface of said at least
one rotatable member includes a plurality of openings into an interior of the hollow tubular member.
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