Abstract:
A method and device for preventing a flexible tubular belt from twisting for use in a tubular belt conveyer are disclosed. A flexible tubular belt is extended between first and second rollers, positioned at a certain distance away from each other, on which the tubular belt is opened, and the belt moving between the two rollers in the tubular form is supported by sets of support rollers which are radially arranged around the peripheries of the belt in contact therewith and are rotatably mounted to support frames. Twisting of the belt is prevented by means which varies an angle of a correction roller extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of the belt in contact therewith. The correction rollers may be disposed in contact with the bottom and/or sides of the belt.
Abstract:
An improved endless flexible conveying element is set forth. The flexible conveying element is of the type adapted to be mounted on a carrier and to conform with a generally curvilinear endless path for orbital traverse of such endless path. The conveying element has an elongated resiliently deformable portion which includes a longitudinally extending portion located laterally intermediate the longitudinal extending side portions thereof. The resiliently deformable portion of said conveying element laterally flexes to permit the belt to follow laterally curvilinear portions of the endless path in an upright position. The resiliently deformable portion has a tendency to spontaneously assume a natural form thereof, which is configured such that the resiliently deformable portion, when mounted on the carrier, is deformed from its natural form in a manner to provide in the side portions a condition of relative longitudinal tension with respect to the central portion. This tension is substantially continuously maintained throughout such lateral flexing of the resiliently deformable portion of the conveying element.
Abstract:
A sling belt conveyor has a pair of individually tensioned cables (209, 224) with transverse slings (51) pivotally connected to the cables (209, 224) which support a low tension conveyor belt (61) without being connected thereto. The belt (61) extends beyond the path of the support cables (209, 224) and is tensioned independently of the latter.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an improved conveyor belt which has application in the area of agricultural machinery and a variety of industrial fields. More particularly, there is described a conveyor belt comprising a web woven from an extruded nylon cord and having a polyvinyl chloride coating with a plurality of transverse, spaced, vinyl slats heat sealed thereto. Preferably, the vinyl slats comprise an inner core or rigid vinyl and an outer main body of less rigid vinyl, and the rigid core has a T-shaped cross-section and the outer main body has an inverted T-shaped cross-section with a slot of corresponding shape to the inner rigid core for receiving same, and the inner core is secured to the outer main body with a polyvinyl chloride solvent.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a conveyor comprising an endless sprocket-toothed traction chain disposed about and engaged by at least two sets of sprocketed teeth reversing means where the chain carries a carrier which, at its trailing end, is attached to a roller-carrying axle which is connected to the traction chain through a coupling flight which is detachably secured to the traction chain. The carrier is connected at its leading edge to a chain-connecting axle which, in turn, is connected to a supporting link. The supporting link is secured, in turn, by a pin to a chain link of the tractor chain. The pin is disposed above the center line of the traction chain at the center of the length thereof. The tooth spacing of the traction chain sprockets are such that a tooth space is associated with the pin of the supporting link as the pin enters the sprocket.
Abstract:
An elastomeric expansion belt material includes an under layer having a heat resistant or insulating fabric, or matting, such as an asbestos fabric, carried by a polymerizable elastomer vulcanized to a heat shield including one or more layers of a metal foil, such as aluminum, and a polyester film, such as polyethylene terephthalate having the metal foil on the inner, or heat contacting surface. The heat shield substantially doubles the temperature resistance of the asbestos carried elastomer and substantially increases its resistance to chemically corrosive gases and particulate material.
Abstract:
A novel apparatus for vertically conveying bulk materials is provided which includes a vertical belt conveyor comprised of two endless conveyor belts guided to travel upwardly along a substantially vertical plane in a face-to-face overlapping relation to each other and a highspeed bulk projector for packing bulk material into between the opposing faces of the two conveyor belts, utilizing the momentum of the bulk material per se. The two conveyor belts are guided at the bottom so as to turn round in directions opposite to each other in substantially symmetrical fashion and bulk material is projected rapidly under the effect of centrifugal force to the bottom belt junction where the two conveyor belts come to join each other. The conveying apparatus, with its highspeed bulk projector combined with a rotary bucket wheel type bulk feeder, forms a vertical bulk delivering apparatus which is compact and highly versatile. In combination with an appropriate movable support frame, the delivering apparatus is advantageously usable as a delivering unit of a vertical bulk delivering system for a bulk storing yard or for unloading bulk cargo which is operable in the yard or cargo hold to deliver the bulk cargo vertically upward with particular efficiency.
Abstract:
A flexible belt trough type conveyor is directed over a hump having an upwardly angling inclined side defined by belt supporting rails, then over a sprocket or similar rolling support device, and down the declined side of the hump on further rails. At the apex of the hump the belt is tensioned sufficiently to stretch the trough structures and partially or entirely flatten them, creating a loading station for granular materials such as explosives. When the belt has traveled over the apex, the tension decreases and the trough structure returns and automatically separates the granular material into discrete load units separated by the raised edges of the troughs.
Abstract:
The buckets used for producing hoist conveyor devices according to the invention comprise at their upper and lower edges reinforcing means for the purpose of improving the rigidity of the wall of said buckets, which walls include laterally a greater convergence so as to prevent the largest passage for the lateral feeding between the walls of the upper bucket and the leading edge of the following bucket. For the purpose of modifying the positioning pitch according to the nature of the substance to be carried, the rear surface of the bucket becoming supported on the conveyor belt includes at its upper edge a bevel shoulder whose cutout is of a size to circumscribe the contour of the lower part of the bucket placed immediately above.
Abstract:
The invention provides a bucket-conveyor device suitable for emptying bulk materials from a ship's hold, comprising an endless chain conveyor having buckets fixed to spaced links which are emptied as the buckets pass over an upper return pulley. In order to control the direction of emptying of the buckets and thereby minimize spillage of the bulk material, discharge chutes are pivotally articulated to the upper return pulley at intervals corresponding to the spacing of the buckets.