Patent ID: 8640856

Claim:
A method of installing a belt cleaner assembly to extend across a conveyor belt, the method comprising: providing a rail member of the belt cleaner assembly having legs and carrying at least one belt cleaner blade assembly; providing an elongate support member of the belt cleaner assembly extending across the conveyor belt and having an upper mounting surface; and assembling the belt cleaner assembly by: shifting the legs of the rail member of the belt cleaner assembly to be engaged on the elongate support member of the belt cleaner assembly; sliding the rail member legs along the upper mounting surface of the elongate support member; engaging securing portions of one of the rail member and the support member with inclined surfaces of the other of the rail member and the support member; and camming the rail member downwardly due to continued sliding of the rail member so that the securing portions slide along the inclined surfaces with the rail member legs being urged tightly against the support member upper surface.