Patent ID: 11858749
Assignee: DEMATIC CORP.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A modular system for producing a conveying device, wherein the conveying device comprises a conveyor that comprises a plurality of conveying zones with conveying surfaces, of which each conveying zone comprises at least one conveying drive for the conveying surface of the respective zone and is allocated to a control unit that actuates the associated conveying drive of the conveying zone, wherein the conveying device is designed with a support structure on which the conveyor is attached and elevated, wherein for each conveying zone the modular system contains a single independent conveying module that is fixed to the support structure as a complete individual unit and, along with further adjacent conveying modules of the modular system, forms the entirety of the conveyor, and wherein each conveying module of the modular system is designed as a pre-manufactured unit together with the associated conveying surface, conveying drive, and control unit, and with an electrical system, a cabling and optionally sensors, wherein each conveying module of the modular system comprises a frame to receive the conveying surface, conveying drives, electrical system, cabling and optional sensors, and wherein by means of the associated frame each conveying module is fixed on the support structure, wherein an upper side of the support structure includes a plurality of snap-in recesses and wherein each conveying module of the modular system is configured to be fixed on the upper side of the support structure by snap-in connections between the frame and the snap-in recesses of the support structure.