Abstract A conveyor, particularly adapted to convey hot materials. The conveyor includes a belt made up of a network of interconnected elongated members forming a flexible mesh. This belt forms a tractive component of the conveyor. A material-holding means is connected to the belt to be moved thereby and this materialholding means forms a material-carrying component of the conveyor. The material-holding means includes a plurality of material-holding elements distributed longitudinally along the belt and having only limited engagement therewith so as to achieve a high degree of thermal separation between the materialholding means and the belt. A connecting means connects the elements of the material-holding means to the belt and this connecting means has only a highly localized area of engagement with the belt and elements so that the high degree of thermal separation between the material-holding means and belt is maintained.
In a conveyor, an elongated belt formed of a network of elongated elements interconnected to provide a flexible mesh, said belt forming tractive component of the conveyor, materialholding means forming a carrying component of the conveyor and including a plurality of material-holding elements distributed longitudinally along said belt and having only limited engagement therewith, said material-holding elements having surfaces directed toward said mesh and almost entirely exposed to the outer atmosphere to provide a high degree of thermal separation between said material-holding elements and said belt, and connecting means connecting said elements to said belt only at highly localized widely separated areas to maintain the high degree of thermal separation between said elements of said material-holding means and said belt, said belt including a plurality of elongated metal rods extending transversely of said belt and distributed longitudinally therealong and a plurality of wire members looped around said rods to form said network therewith, said rods and wires all being of circular cross section, and said connecting means including substantially Ushaped members extending around said rods, distributed longitudinally therealong, and fixed to said elements of said material-holding means.
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In a conveyor, an elongated belt formed of a network of elongated elements interconnected to provide a flexible mesh, said belt forming tractive component of the conveyor, materialholding means forming a carrying component of the conveyor and including a plurality of material-holding elements distributed longitudinally along said belt and having only limited engagement therewith, said material-holding elements having surfaces directed toward said mesh and almost entirely exposed to the outer atmosphere to provide a high degree of thermal separation between said material-holding elements and said belt, and connecting means connecting said elements to said belt only at highly localized widely separated areas to maintain the high degree of thermal separation between said elements of said material-holding means and said belt, said belt including a plurality of elongated metal rods extending transversely of said belt and distributed longitudinally therealong and a plurality of wire members looped around said rods to form said network therewith, said rods and wires all being of circular cross section, and said connecting means including substantially Ushaped members extending around said rods, distributed longitudinally therealong, and fixed to said elements of said material-holding means.