Conveyor apparatus

Claim 1

A CONVEYOR APPARATUS COMPRISING: A PAIR OF LATERALLY SPACED ELONGATED SIDE ROPES EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY ALONG AN ELONGATED PATH; A PLURALITY OF CLAMPS LONGI TUDINALLY SPACED IN TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED SPACED PAIRS ENGAGING A PORTION OF SAID SIDE ROPES; EACH OF SAID CLAMPS COMPRISING AN ELONGATED MEMBER HAVING A THREADED END PORTION, A DEFORMABLE RESILIENT MEMBER ENCOMPASSING SAID ELONGATED MEMBER ADJACENT THE OTHER END THEREOF, AN ELONGATED JAW MEMBER SUPPORTED BY SAID THEREOF, MEMBER BETWEEN SAID OTHER END OF SAID ELONGATED MEMBER AND SAID RESILIENT MEMBER, SAID JAW MEMBER EXTENDING LATEALLY OF SAID ELONGATED MEMBER WITH THE ENDS THEREOF EXTENDING BEYOND SAID RESILIENT MEMBER, ONE OF SAID ENDS OF SAID JAW MEMBER CONSTITUTING MEANS FOR RESTRAINING SAID JAW MEMBER AGAINST ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO SAID ELONGATED MEMBER, A SUPPORT MEMBER ENCOMPASSING SAID ELONGATED MEMBER ADJACENT THE THREADED END PORTION, A TIGHTENING MEMBER HAVING A U-SHAPED PORTION AND A TRANSVERSE PORTION WITH AN OPENING IN THE TRANSVERSE PORTION THEREOF FREELY SLIDABLE OVER SAID THREADED END WITH THE ARMS THEREOF EXTENDING AWAY FROM SAID OTHER END, A NUT THREADEDLY RECEIVED ON SAID THREADED END AXIALLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID TRANSVERSE PORTION MOVABLE TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID END OF DEFORMING SAID RESILIENT MEMBER BETWEEN SAID JAW MEMBER AND SAID SUPPORT MEMBER INTO CLAMPING ENGAGEMENT WITH A PORTION OF SAID SIDE ROPE, SAID ARMS BEING FORMED TO CAPTIVELY RECEIVE SAID NUT THEREBETWEEN, AND MEANS LOCATED ON THE U-SHAPED PORTION OF SAID TIGHTENING MEMBER FOR MOUNTING AN IDLER-THEREON.