Air cushioned belt conveyor

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1997-08-15

1999-02-02

Bidwell, James R.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor section

Endless conveyor

B65G 1560

Patent

active

058652990

ABSTRACT:
A material conveyor consisting of a belt supporting floor having a multiplicity of air cushion apertures therethrough, a walled chamber attached to the material conveyor, the upper wall of the walled chamber consisting of the belt supporting floor, the walled chamber having a plurality of partitions there across dividing the chamber into segmented air pressure control chambers; a branched air induction tube attached to the material conveyor such tube being capable of injecting pressurized air into the air pressure control chambers; a conveyor belt mounted on the material conveyor so that its interior surface is in contact with the belt supporting floor; and a belt driving motor capable of driving the conveyor belt.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3756380 (1973-09-01), Ackroyd et al.
patent: 4316718 (1982-02-01), Drugge
patent: 4645069 (1987-02-01), Sjogren

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