---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000002058"
title: "Conveyor component with flexible hub and conveyor assembly"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:10:30.393348Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002058"
categories:
  - "material-handling/conveying-systems"
keywords:
  - "b65g15/60"
  - "b65g23/04"
  - "b65g23/04"
  - "b65g23/04"
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  - "b65g39/04"
---

# Conveyor component with flexible hub and conveyor assembly

## Abstract

A conveyor component for use in a conveyor includes a flexible hub for mounting a shaft and a continuous rim connected to the flexible hub for contacting a conveyor belt. The flexible hub includes a peripheral gap that can be widened using an expansion tool to enlarge a shaft-receiving opening formed by the flexible hub. Positioning tabs on a radially inner surface of the flexible hub move into engagement with a groove on the shaft when the conveyor component is in a relaxed state and the peripheral gap is contracted and out of engagement with the groove when the peripheral gap is expanded, and the flexible hub is flexed.