| Title of Invention | TRAVEL DRIVE |
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| Abstract | The invention relates to a traveling gear for mobile or rotatable devices, characterized by at least one bolt wheel (6) that engages in teeth (8) of a gear rim (4) and is driven in a rotatable and motive manner. |
| Full Text | TRAVEL DRIVE The invention relates to a travel drive, for example one that can used in systems for germinating and curing malt in malt factory systems. Cereal grains or malts are germinated and cured on large germinating furnaces or kilns that mostly have a circular design. Several germinating furnaces are often situated one on top of the other. Moving devices for handing the germinating material are arranged over each furnace floor. In a device for germinating and curing according to DE-OS 2162167, a material exchanging screw carrier is designed as a box beam with four wheels mounted at its ends, of which two are arranged over each other, and two next to each other. The wheels run between rails, which in turn are secured to consoles on the lateral walls and the covers of the upper furnace areas. DE-U-7437732 additionally shows a cleaning device for ventilation rooms in germinating boxes, in which each end of the carrier has two pairs of wheels situated one over the other, wherein each wheel pair has a gap between the wheels. The gap is filled by a rail of the wall console, so that the carrier can be traversed in this guide transverse to its longitudinal axis. The kiln according to DE-OS 2 654 7 57 incorporates a pivotable tilting furnace in which the running rails in the swivel ing area of the tilting furnace can be removed to prevent a collision between the furnace to be tilted and the running rails. A germinating box loading and unloading device according to DE-OS 1442157 contains an open-ended or continuous plate conveyor for loading and unloading that is slidably mounted on rails. The object of the invention is to develop a travel drive that is suitable for longitudinally traversable and rotatable equipment, such as germinating furnaces. The object is achieved with the features in claims 1 and 2. The travel drive has a pin wheel/gear ring arrangement containing only a small number of areas subject to wear (pins), which can also be easily replaced. Advantageous configurations are disclosed in the subclaims. The running wheel with the gear ring is designed as a stationary drive unit on a console. A pin wheel runs on the gear ring like a pinion. The gearing is adjusted. The corresponding material pairing defines the pin wheel as a wearing part, The latter was additionally designed in such aw ay as to enable easy replacement of the [Translator's note: word missing in German]. Given a stationary design of the transmission and pin wheel, e.g., a rotary furnace, this allows the rotary furnace to rotate. The operating safety is enhanced at a comparatively low outlay, and assembly or disassembly is simplified. The invention will be described in greater detail below in an exemplary embodiment using a drawing. The drawing shows: Fig. 1: a travel drive with pin wheel-toothed rack arrangement (front view); Fig 2: an arrangement according to Fig. 1, top view. Situated on a lateral wall 1 of a stationary furnace in a malt factory system is a console 2, which accommodates a running rail with a running wheel 3 and a gear ring 4. Visible on the depicted device (e.g., a cleaning or processing unit) is a motor 5 with a pin wheel 6, wherein the pin wheel 6 has pins 7 spaced apart uniformly around the periphery, the pins 7 engage the teeth 8 of the gear ring 4, and a rotational motion of the pin wheel allows the traversable device to travel. This embodiment is an example, and the invention is not limited to the latter. For example, the gear ring 4 could be mounted on track rollers, arranged in a rotatable device, and the driven pin wheel 6 is immovably secured to the lateral wall 1 with a motor console. By contrast, a longitudinal configuration would require that a console 2 be arranged on parallel lateral walls 1, and such a unit would be provided with at least one, but preferably two independent drive units (motor 5, pin wheel 6). CLAIMS 1. A travel drive for traversable or rotatable devices, characterized by at least one pin wheel (6) that engages the teeth (8) of a gear ring (4). 2. The travel drive according to claim 1, characterized in that the pin wheel (6) is rotatable and motor driven. 3. The travel drive according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the gear ring (4) is stationarily arranged in a running wheel (3). 4. The travel drive according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the pin wheel (6) is stationarily arranged with a drive. 5. The travel drive according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the device can be longitudinally traversed, and two gear rings (4) are arranged parallel. 6. The travel drive according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the wearing parts are on the pin wheel (6). 7. The travel drive according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the gear ring (4) is simultaneously used as a bridge floor in addition to the drive system. |
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| Patent Number | 261186 | ||||||||
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| Indian Patent Application Number | 33/CHENP/2007 | ||||||||
| PG Journal Number | 24/2014 | ||||||||
| Publication Date | 13-Jun-2014 | ||||||||
| Grant Date | 10-Jun-2014 | ||||||||
| Date of Filing | 04-Jan-2007 | ||||||||
| Name of Patentee | BUHLER AG | ||||||||
| Applicant Address | INDUSATRIESTRASSE, CH-9240 UZWIL, SWITZERLAND; | ||||||||
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| PCT International Classification Number | F16H 1/24 | ||||||||
| PCT International Application Number | PCT/CH05/00374 | ||||||||
| PCT International Filing date | 2005-07-04 | ||||||||
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