Patent ID: 6820737
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A track frame assembly for guiding a conveyor chain in a conveyor system, the assembly comprising:at least a pair of frame members; a coupling block to couple the pair of frame members to each other; and synthetic resin-made track rails fitted on each frame member and with which the conveyor chain is in sliding contact; each of the frame members being formed as a channel having a generally bracket-shaped section and consisting of an elongated base plate portion and a pair of elongated bent plate portions joined to opposite longitudinal edges, respectively, of the base plate portion and extending generally perpendicularly to the base plate portion; each of the bent plate portions having a plurality of cuts formed therein generally perpendicularly to the length thereof at predetermined intervals; and the cuts being deformed, and bent plate portions being bent in the direction of their width, when the base plate portion is bent in the direction of its thickness.