Patent ID: 8468790
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. A conveyor ( 16 ) comprising a plurality of conveyor disks ( 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 28 , or 30 ) having radially outer regions edges, wherein all of said plurality of conveyor disks ( 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 28 , or 30 ) are arranged coaxial to one another, wherein all of said plurality of conveyor disks ( 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 28 , or 30 ) are rotatable about a common central rotational axis, wherein teeth are distributed around the radially outer regions edges of all of said plurality of conveyor disks ( 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 ), wherein said plurality of conveyor disks ( a first conveyor disk ( a second conveyor disk ( a third conveyor disk ( a fourth conveyor disk ( wherein a first axial clearance is provided between the first conveyor disk ( wherein a second axial clearance is provided between the second conveyor disk ( wherein a third axial clearance is provided between the third conveyor disk ( wherein the first axial clearance is smaller than the second axial clearance, but substantially equal to the third axial clearance.