SCREW CONVEYOR SECTION CONNECTING DEVICE Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering; materials handling facilities; connection of conveyor sections and working members of conveyor with drive shaft. SUBSTANCE: shaft of conveyor section connecting device is installed in bearing unit, cup is connected with conveyor section screw, and retainers are installed in longitudinal slots of cup and on pins press-fitted in shaft. Brackets are fitted in additional longitudinal slots of cup arranged in plane perpendicular to plane of main slots. Brackets engage with inner end face of cup. Axle ends are fitted in coaxial holes in projecting portions of brackets, middle portion of axle being fitted in hole of self-aligned hinge bearing. The latter is installed on end of shaft between press-fitted pins in hole whose geometric axis is perpendicular to common axis of press-fitted pins. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 5 dwg