Patent ID: 9422110
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: B65G

Claim Text:
1. A guide device defining a side sliding surface for bulk conveyors, the guide device comprising: a body having an (X) axis and a (Y) axis transverse to the (X) axis, the body comprising: two opposed plate-like elements mounted in parallel to the (X) axis the plate like elements defining a plate-edge surface extending between the edges of the plate-like elements in parallel to the (Y) axis, the plate like elements having a head end and a tail end; and, at least two shafts coupled between the two opposed plate-like elements, each forming a rotation axis substantially transverse to the (X) axis; each of the shafts having at least one rolling body rotatably mounted about its respective shaft rotation axis; wherein the shafts are disposed such that an outer portion of the rolling bodies, which extends away from the shaft in the direction of the plate edge surface, extends further away from the shaft than the plate edge surface extends away from the shaft in said direction of the plate edge surface, and wherein the extents of the rolling bodies defining therebetween a sliding surface for objects carried by the conveyor; the guide device further comprising at least one pair of mounting jaws coupled to the plate like elements and extending along the (X) axis from the tail end thereof, the mounting jaws having dimensions parallel to the (Y) axis equal to or smaller than the maximum distance between the extents of the opposed plate-like elements.