US 12,454,417 B2
Conveyor belt module with relatively narrow surfaces
Harry Van Der Eerden, AV Boxmeer (NL); Germ Buter, Vejle (DK); and Kenneth Westergaard Andersen, Vejle (DK)
Assigned to Marel Poultry B.V., Av Boxmeer (NL); and Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S, Vejle (DK)
Appl. No. 18/247,201
Filed by Marel Poultry B.V., Av Boxmeer (NL); and Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S, Vejle (DK)
PCT Filed Oct. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077888
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 29, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/074210, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 14, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20201185 (EP), filed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406643 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 17/06 (2006.01); B65G 17/08 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 17/086 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyor belt module for a side flexing modular conveyor belt, said conveyor belt module comprising:
a first set of eye parts defining a first axis, and
a second set of eye parts defining a second axis,
wherein the eye parts comprise:
a primary group of eye parts,
a secondary group of eye parts, wherein the secondary group of eye parts comprises eye parts placed on both sides of the primary group of eye parts along an axis being parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis,
wherein, in a cross-sectional plane being orthogonal to a line being
orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis, and
intersecting both of the first axis and the second axis,
a first width ratio of any eye part is given as the ratio of:
a width in a direction parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis of a surface of the eye part at a distal end in a first direction along an axis in the cross-sectional plane and being orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis, to
a largest width in a direction parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis of the eye part,
and a second width ratio of any eye part is given as the ratio of:
a width in a direction parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis of a surface of the eye part at a distal end in a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction, to
the largest width in a direction parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis of the eye part,
and wherein a first width ratio and/or a second width ratio is smaller for eye parts within the primary group of eye parts compared to eye parts within the secondary group of eye parts.