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Abstract

A belt for a trough belt cleaning apparatus in which the objects or articles to be cleaned are tumbled within the trough of a rotating endless belt and subjected to the action of a blasting agent during their tumbling motion, to become cleaned thereby wherein said endless belt comprises cross bars having extending between them links of a resilient material, with the ends of said links having on either side thereof a partially open end eye each for receiving said cross bars and for facilitating replacement of a link without removing a cross bar, which end eyes fully or partially embrace the (associated) cross bar, and wherein the edges of the eyes are adapted to be expanded to the width of a cross bar under spring-back resilience.

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