Abstract: An apparatus for conveying objects in a conveying direction includes a conveyor including a chain having at least a forward run supported by generally parallel and aligned supports spaced apart in a direction transverse to the conveying direction. A drive, which may be located between the spaced supports or between side links of the chain, includes a first sprocket for driving the chain in the conveying direction and at least one first retainer located between the supports for retaining the chain in engagement with the sprocket. Related methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A ceiling-mounted apparatus for running a cable harness, in more precise terms a ceiling-mounted apparatus for running a cable harness with a chain of guide carriages coupled to one another by means of spring elements, said guide carriages running in at least one guide rail in each instance, with a first guide carriage being connected to a cable harness source by means of at least one spring element and with the guide carriages comprising additional spring elements for attaching the cable harness.

Abstract: A hanger system provided with a hanger drive device for driving a hanger for conveying a conveyance object. The hanger drive device includes a drive wheel facing a bar provided to the hanger, a pinch roll, and a cylinder for pushing the pinch roll toward the drive wheel. The hanger moves when the bar is pushed towards the drive wheel by the pinch roll. When the pinch roll returns to a stand-by position, the bar is separated from the drive wheel, and the movement stops.

Abstract: The chain drive described in the present disclosure, instead of using a single sprocket wheel, saves space by making use of two or more sprocket wheels coupled together by slip-free means, each sprocket wheel having only a small number of low sprockets. The number of sprocket wheels, the center-to-center distance between the sprocket wheels, the tip diameter of the sprocket wheels, and the phase offset of the sprockets as between the sprocket wheels which form a set of such wheels are all so matched that one sprocket of one sprocket wheel always engages in the chain in rhythmical sequence, so that all the sprocket wheels rotate smoothly when the chain moves evenly.

Abstract: A suspension conveyor wherein the driving force acts on casters of a carriage, comprises a drive-transmitting assembly having a resiliently deformable drag material with its rear side supported by a backup support. During drive-transmitting operation, the drag material is compressed between the carriage and the drive-transmitting member resulting in the exertion of a perpendicularly oriented force.

Abstract: A conveyor chain drive unit having a main frame formed essentially by an H-section structural member whose flanges provide a pair of vertical plates located on either side of the path of travel of the conveyor chain. A bearing mounted on one of these plates supports the vertically extending output shaft of a reducer with the reducer housing positioned above the main frame. Connected to the reducer housing is a movable frame which extends radially outward from the axis of the reducer output shaft and supports a motor for driving the reducer. The conveyor chain is engaged by a caterpillar type of drive chain trained about a drive sprocket on the reducer output shaft and about a take-up sprocket and a back-up bar both mounted on the one side plate of the main frame. A roller nest carried by the opposite main frame side plate holds the conveyor chain in engagement with the drive chain.

Abstract: A circulating conveyor, e.g. of the type in which a load carrier passes along an endless track and supports material to be conveyed, e.g. garments suspended by hangers from the load carrier, comprises in addition to the circulating track, a load carrier which runs with a plurality of wheels on the endless rail and has a displacement chain formed by a multiplicity of rigid links each constituted by a rigid bar hinged at its ends to the adjoining links. The lateral flanks of the bar are engageable by a friction drive roller and a counter roller to displace the chain and hence the load carrier along the circulating path.