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Heavy duty modular conveyor belt and sprocket with unique tracking

CA 1302340 C · Owner: Laitram Corporation (The) · Inventors: Lapeyre, James M.

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A sprocket and a module for forming a heavy duty smooth top, straight running conveyor belt which is easy to clean and which uses a center transverse tooth member to receive a driving force from an intermeshed sprocked is disclosed. Each of the modules is suitable for being pivotally connected with a multiplicity of similar modules by pivot rods to construct a conveyor belt. Each of the modules includes first and second pluralities of link ends which are aligned in the module to form first and second pivot axes. Each of the link ends have a topmost portion which has a width which is just less than the space between two adjacent link ends on the same module such that, when intermeshed with …

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  • Granted June 2, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 2, 2009.
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FiledMay 25, 1989
GrantedJune 2, 1992
Term endedJune 2, 2009
Patent numberCA 1302340 C
Classification (IPC)B65G17/08 +1 more

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1990199219941996199820002002200420062008Application filedMay 25, 1989Patent grantedJune 2, 1992Term endedJune 2, 2009

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