Patent ID: 7637368
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A guide for a conveyor of articles, said guide comprising: a guide element elongated in a longitudinal direction and intended in use to be arranged along a transport path of a conveyor of articles for containment and/or routing of transported articles, said guide element comprising a substantially planar portion and first and second edges opposed to each other in a transversal direction transversal to said longitudinal direction; a clamp associable to said guide element, said clamp comprising a back portion and two clamp appendixes opposed to each other in said transversal direction and adapted to clamp said guide element along said first and second edges, said clamp being adapted for coupling to a support bar of the conveyor of articles intended to support the guide element to a frame of the conveyor, said clamp including a pair of slots opposed to each other in said transversal direction and adapted to allow sliding insertion of the clamp on said support bar; tightening means associable to said clamp and actuatable to exert an action of traction of the clamp appendixes to urge them one towards the other in said transversal direction, so as to tighten said clamp appendixes against said first and second edges of the guide element, said tightening means including at least one of a screw and a connecting rod, and said slots are arranged in such a way that said action of urging of the guide element toward the back portion of said clamp causes the abutment of the back wall of the guide element against said at least one of a screw and a connecting rod; wherein said clamp appendixes of the clamp and said first and second edges of the guide element are shaped in such way as to transform at least partly said action of traction exerted by said tightening means on the clamp appendixes into an action of urging of the guide element toward the back portion of the clamp, said action of urging being adapted to bring the planar portion of the guide element in abutment against at least one among said support bar or said tightening means.