Patent ID: 6098861
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: B26F,B28D,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A breaking apparatus for a ceramic board, the ceramic board being composed of a number of bar-shaped boards, said breaking apparatus comprising:press means provided above a feeding belt for pressing the ceramic board; anda break pulley pressed against a lower surface of the feeding belt to divide the ceramic board sandwiched between the feeding belt and the press means into said number of bar-shaped boards while the feeding belt is bent along a portion of a peripheral surface of the break pulley; wherein:rack teeth in plural rows are provided on the lower surface of the feeding belt;pinion teeth in plural rows are provided on the peripheral surface of the break pulley having a shape cooperatively meshing with said rack teeth thereby permitting each tooth of said pinion teeth thereof to engage with each tooth of said rack teeth on the feeding belt;each tooth of said rack teeth in a one row provided on the feeding belt is deviated by a predetermined distance from each tooth thereof in another row provided on the feeding belt;each tooth of said pinion teeth in a one row provided on the break pulley is deviated by a predetermined distance from each tooth thereof in another row provided on the break pulley;said each tooth of said rack teeth in a one row provided on the feeding belt is disposed so as to engage with said each tooth of said pinion teeth in a one row provided on the break pulley, and said each tooth of said rack teeth in another row provided on the feeding belt is disposed so as to engage with said each tooth of said pinion teeth in another row provided on the break pulley; andsaid one row provided on said feeding belt is bent at a timing different from said another row provided thereon by deviating each tooth of said one row by a predetermined distance from each tooth of said another row.