Patent ID: 9725245
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B65G

Claim:
1. A transport conveyor comprising: an endless belt wound over a plurality of winding members and a driving rotatable member; a transport actuator device for drivingly rotating the driving rotatable member; wherein the transport conveyor transports an article placed on an upward-facing transporting surface of the endless belt along a transport direction, such that the driving rotatable member is drivingly rotated by the transport actuator device to move the endless belt along a longitudinal direction thereof, wherein provided as the plurality of winding members are: wherein the endless belt is wound over the first transport winding member, the second transport winding member, the first relaying winding member, the second relaying winding member, and the first transport winding member, in that order, wherein the second transport winding member, the first relaying winding member, and the second relaying winding member are supported to be swingable about a vertical axis extending along a vertical direction and located in an end portion, on the second direction side, of the transport conveyor, and wherein an operatively connecting mechanism is provided to cause the second transport winding member, the first relaying winding member, and the second relaying winding member to swing in an operatively connected manner to cause the second transport winding member and the second relaying winding member to swing integrally about the vertical axis and to cause the first relaying winding member to swing about the vertical axis in the direction in which the second transport winding member and the second relaying winding member swing, and by an amount of swing that is greater than an amount of swing of the second transport winding member and the second relaying winding member.