Patent ID: 7152743
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: B07B

Abstract:
1. A screening assembly which includes: at least one rail to be secured, in use, to a support member of a screening machine to lie intermediate and parallel to side members of the screening machine; at least one locating formation extending from an operatively upper surface of said at least one rail, the at least one locating formation including a catch member; a plurality of screening modules, each screening module having an end supported on the at least one rail with a pair of modules lying in end-to-end abutting relationship with each other with the abutting ends overlying the at least one rail, at least one recess being defined in the end of the screening module to be supported on the rail, the recess extending between an operatively upper surface and an operatively lower surface of the end of the screening module with the part of the recess of one module being in register with a corresponding part of the recess of the abutting module to define a passage through which the locating formation passes so that at least the catch member of the locating formation protrudes beyond the upper surface of the abutting screening modules; and a locking member associated with the at least one locating formation for engaging the catch member of said locating formation for locking the pair of modules with respect to each other and with respect to the rail.