A splice link for a conveyor belt includes an outer locking bar including at least one lower tab and an offset portion, an inner connector bar including at least one opening configured to receive the at least one lower tab on the outer locking bar and a front face having an upper tab, the offset portion on the outer locking bar configured to engage the upper tab of the inner connector bar. A further aspect of the disclosure includes a conveyor belt including a plurality of spaced tractive rods, a plurality of parallel pairs of edge bar links interconnecting the plurality of spaced tractive rods, and a splice link disposed between adjacent pairs of edge bar links.

A conveyorized baking system having improved dust shield support. The system includes including a conveyor track, a conveyor chain that moves through the conveyor track, flanged support struts attached to the conveyor chain, and dust shields supported by the flanged support struts for preventing dust and debris from entering the conveyor track.

A conveyor system integrates lane dividers to form a plurality of product lanes across a conveyor belt carryway while providing conduits enabling transverse fluid flow across the carryway. Each lane divider includes a body defining edges of adjacent conveyor belt lanes and hinge elements or other attachment means for integrating the lane divider into a modular conveyor belt. The body has lateral conduits to allow transverse fluid flow therethrough.

A conveyorized baking system having improved dust shield support. The system includes including a conveyor track, a conveyor chain that moves through the conveyor track, flanged support struts attached to the conveyor chain, and dust shields supported by the flanged support struts for preventing dust and debris from entering the conveyor track.

A conveyor system integrates lane dividers to form a plurality of product lanes across a conveyor belt carryway while providing conduits enabling transverse fluid flow across the carryway. Each lane divider includes a body defining edges of adjacent conveyor belt lanes and hinge elements or other attachment means for integrating the lane divider into a modular conveyor belt. The body has lateral conduits to allow transverse fluid flow therethrough.

A load carrier for loading and unloading a container includes rigid load-carrier segments, each having a length and width in first and second directions, respectively, and an upper side in a third direction. In a first state, the upper sides are parallel to one another and, in the first direction, one behind the other, to form a planar loading surface. The segments are mutually connected in an articulated manner such that they are pivotable to one another about pivot axes parallel to the second direction. In the first state, a respective segment which, in the first direction, follows a respectively other segment, is pivotable, by its upper side, toward the upper side of the other segments, so that, by the segments being rolled up in spiral form, the load carrier is transferrable from the first into a second state and, by unrolling, is transferrable back into the first state.

A conveying device has: a main conveyor unit; a sub conveyor unit; and a lifting and lowering unit that lifts and lowers at least one of the main conveyor unit and the sub conveyor unit, wherein the main conveyor unit has a main conveying passage disposed in a fixed region, the main conveying passage conveying a conveyance object, wherein the sub conveyor unit has a sub conveying passage disposed in the fixed region, the sub conveying passage conveying the conveyance object in an intersecting direction with respect to a conveying direction of the main conveying passage, wherein a conveyance attitude is capable of being changed between a main conveyance attitude in which a conveying surface of the sub conveying passage is located below a conveying surface of the main conveying passage, and a sub conveyance attitude in which both ends in the intersecting direction of the conveying surface of the sub conveying passage are located above the conveying surface of the main conveying passage, and in the sub conveyance attitude, the conveying surface of the sub conveying passage is inclined in a height direction.

Embodiments of the inventive concept provide an article transfer apparatus and an article transfer method which can temporarily load a container, and which can vary its size according to necessity, so an interference with surrounding structures do not occur while varying the size. The inventive concept provides an article transfer apparatus at which an OHT transfers a container. The article transfer apparatus includes: a top support unit fixed to a top space within a semiconductor fab; a bottom support unit positioned spaced apart below the top support unit and on which the container is mounted; a link unit coupled between the top support unit and the bottom support unit and which can be folded; a folding driving unit connecting the top support unit and the link unit, and configured so when not driven a space that the container can be mounted on is formed by the link unit being spread, and when driven the bottom support unit closely contacts the top support unit by folding the link unit, and wherein the folding driving unit is positioned to not go beyond a top portion of the support unit.

A load carrier for loading and unloading a container includes rigid load-carrier segments, each having a length and width in first and second directions, respectively, and an upper side in a third direction. In a first state, the upper sides are parallel to one another and, in the first direction, one behind the other, to form a planar loading surface. The segments are mutually connected in an articulated manner such that they are pivotable to one another about pivot axes parallel to the second direction. In the first state, a respective segment which, in the first direction, follows a respectively other segment, is pivotable, by its upper side, toward the upper side of the other segments, so that, by the segments being rolled up in spiral form, the load carrier is transferrable from the first into a second state and, by unrolling, is transferrable back into the first state.

A splice link for a conveyor belt includes an outer locking bar including at least one lower tab and an offset portion, an inner connector bar including at least one opening configured to receive the at least one lower tab on the outer locking bar and a front face having an upper tab, the offset portion on the outer locking bar configured to engage the upper tab of the inner connector bar. A further aspect of the disclosure includes a conveyor belt including a plurality of spaced tractive rods, a plurality of parallel pairs of edge bar links interconnecting the plurality of spaced tractive rods, and a splice link disposed between adjacent pairs of edge bar links.