Patent ID: 6460685
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
Conveyor for clothes hangers provided with hanging hooks, which conveyor comprises:an endless chain which is constructed from a plurality of chain links and runs between a first return axis located at one end of the conveyor and a second return axis located at the other end of the conveyor, so that the chain, by being guided around said return axes, is divided into an upper and a lower portion, said chain links being provided with depressions, whereby the hanging hooks of the clothes hangers are arranged for resting directly, during conveying, in said depressions on said upper portion of the chain, and a drive motor arranged so as, by means of a drive wheel, to drive the chain in the desired direction, wherein the lower portion of the chain is arranged so as, between said first and second return axes, to be deflected laterally by means of deflecting members so that a deflected part of the lower portion of the chain is made to run parallel in a laterally displaced manner in relation to its upper portion, and in that said drive wheel is in driving engagement with the deflected part of the lower portion of the chain.