US 12,287,148 B2
Plate conveyor belt for transporting a material web which is to be continuously thermally treated using a gaseous tempering medium, and furnace comprising at least one plate conveyor belt
Wilfred Kemper, Ladbergen (DE)
Assigned to BERND MÜNSTERMANN GMBH & CO. KG, Telgte (DE)
Appl. No. 17/798,400
Filed by BERND MÜNSTERMANN GMBH & CO. KG, Telgte (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/053035
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/160586, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102020103449.0 (DE), filed on Feb. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096050 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 17/06 (2006.01); B65G 17/34 (2006.01); F27B 9/10 (2006.01); F27B 9/24 (2006.01)
CPC F27B 9/243 (2013.01) [B65G 17/065 (2013.01); B65G 17/34 (2013.01); F27B 9/10 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plate conveyor belt for transporting a material web to be thermally treated in a continuous flow by a gaseous tempering medium, the plate conveyor belt comprising:
conveyor belt segments that are connected to one another in articulated fashion, each segment having a flat cover plate having a surface that forms a contact surface to the material web to be treated, and the cover plate having openings for conducting through the gaseous tempering medium conducted through the material web,
wherein the openings in the cover plate are provided in a configuration corresponding to a transport of a material web that has a width equal to a width of the plate conveyor belt, and
wherein, for a thermal treatment of a material web that is narrower than the width of the plate conveyor belt, at least along one longitudinal side of the plate conveyor belt, edge-side openings in the cover plates are configured to be blocked by a wall-shaped blocking element with respect to the conducting through of the gaseous tempering medium, the wall-shaped blocking element being impermeable to gas.