Patent ID: 9085415
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A conveyer belt for a conveyer apparatus for moving round produce having a known maximum size comprising: an elongated flat continuous belt body having a plurality of crescent shaped protrusion extending upward from the belt body and configured so that the conveyer belt moves the produce at inclines up to forty degrees from horizontal, each of the plurality of crescent shaped protrusions having rounded outer surfaces including a rounded leading surface, a trailing surface, a rounded top surface and opposed rounded ends, each of the plurality of protrusions having a center point spaced at a select distance above the longitudinal plane of the belt body, where the select distance is less than ten percent of the diameter of the known maximum size of the produce for which the conveyer belt is used, the top surface and leading surface having an outer curvature formed by a radius extending from the center point, where the radius is less than twenty-five percent of the diameter of the known maximum size of the produce for which the conveyer belt is used.