Method and apparatus for forming conveyor belt hinge pins

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5238177
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07927803

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Disclosed is a flexible hinge pin, and a method and apparatus for forming the hinge pin, wherein a cable is twisted and heated with sufficient torque and heat to sever the cable into shorter hinge pins. The heating and twisting causes the portions of the cable in proximity with the severed ends to have a tight spiral and to be reduced in diameter, and the strands which comprise the cable to be bonded to one another both internally and at external portions of the cable. The reduced diameters of the formed ends facilitates easier threading of the hinge pins through belt fastener hoops. The bonding of the cable strands in the region of the ends serves to both maintain the tight spiral and the reduced diameter, and to prevent the ends of the hinge pin from separating.

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FLEXIBLE STEEL LACING COMPANY A CORP OF IL2525 WISCONSIN AVENUE DOWNERS GROVE IL 60515

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Behrends, Richard J Wauconda, IL 1 3
Bubula, Thomas J Beecher, IL 4 41
Nakulski, William L Roselle, IL 1 3

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