Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Bucket
Patent
1991-05-14
1992-09-01
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Bucket
198711, 198713, B65G 1736
Patent
active
051432030
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor/elevator for moving bulk granular materials from a first location, at a designated height, to a second location, at an elevated height. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor web which is tensioned and has oppositely facing elevating and return runs. A plurality of carriages or buckets are attached to the conveyor web, and, as the web is driven, the granular material is introduced into the buckets at the first location proximate the bottom of the elevating run. The carriages or buckets into which the material has been introduced move, thereafter, upwardly along the elevating run and over the apogee of the structure. Each bucket has a floor which, when the bucket is moving along an elevating run, extends, at an acute angle, upwardly and away from the conveyor web. When the bucket moves along the return run, the floor extends, at the same angle, downwardly and away from the conveyor web. As one particular bucket passes from the elevating run to the return run, therefore, as it passes over the apogee of the conveyor system and material transported therein is emptied, the floor of a bucket immediately forward of the carriage will serve as a deflector to channel the materials being emptied into a receptacle proximate the upper end of the return run.
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Merrill Iron & Steel, Inc.
Nawrocki Lawrence M.
Valenza Joseph E.
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