Patent ID: 11933399
Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A belt-pulley system configured to guard against ingress of debris to at least one or more pulleys driven by the belt, said belt-pulley system comprising:
an endless belt and a plurality of pulleys in engagement with the belt and spaced apart along the belt to define a driven path of the belt;
one of the plurality of pulleys being a prime mover output pulley;
the prime mover output pulley configured to receive a run-in section of the belt and to guide the belt to an out-going section of the belt, the run-in section and the out-going section of the belt being spaced apart by a widthwise distance;
a pulley guard configured to guard against ingress of debris to the prime mover output pulley, the pulley guard being positioned widthwise between the run-in and out-going sections of the belt, wherein the pulley guard is a pin guard located between the belt and the pulley at a position intersecting a rotational plane of the pulley,
wherein the pin guard is positioned between the belt and the pulley at an input side of the belt.