Patent ID: 8973739
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A conveyor belt cleaner comprising: a snap-fit scraper blade; an elongate mounting member for extending across a belt and having a square cross-sectional configuration; a single-piece blade body having an upper belt scraping portion for engaging a belt and a lower mounting portion for being mounted to the elongate mounting member; depending legs of the lower mounting portion of the single-piece blade body; upper portions of the depending legs that have substantially flat, inclined inner surfaces that meet and extend away from each other at an acute angle relative to each other; lower gripping portions of the depending legs that have substantially flat, inclined inner surfaces that extend toward each other generally orthogonal to the corresponding upper portion inner surface; upstream orthogonal surfaces and downstream orthogonal surfaces of the elongate mounting member; and an opening between the lower gripping portions of the depending legs sized to allow the legs to be snap-fit onto the elongate mounting member with the depending legs splayed apart from each other so that the flat inner surfaces of the upper and lower portions of the legs tightly engage against the corresponding surfaces of the elongate mounting member.