Mobile and transferable telescoping conveyor appartus and process
OwnerNeil Wilsoninventor
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Abstract
Provided is a portable conveying system mounted on a class 5 operable pickup truck rolling chassis with engine and transmission components for conveying material to a desired site comprising, a hydraulically operated telescopable conveying unit of a plurality of individual sections nesting in each other or extending out from each other when telescoping and an internal extendable and retractable conveying belt situated within said telescoping conveying unit, and operated manually or remotely controlled by PTO function of the pickup truck chassis engine, and wherein said individual telescoping sections are moveable relative to each other by rolling and/or sliding on polymeric slidable surfaces.
Claims10
A portable and transferrably mountable self-powering conveying system for conveying material to a desired site comprising a hydraulically operated telescopable conveying unit of a plurality of individual telescopable sections nesting in each other or extending out from each other when telescoping said telescopable sections and an internal extendable and retractable serpentine conveying belt situated within said telescopable conveying unit which is foldable in belt storage means for storage on a plurality of rollers situated below said telescopable sections and further comprising tension control means to tension said conveying belt as desired and to detension said belt when stored on said rollers situated below said telescopable sections when not in use by said conveying means and wherein said system is operated by a detachable engine and one or more detachable hydraulic units detachably connected to the engine.
A portable material conveying system and apparatus comprising a conveying means of telescopable sections nesting in each other and a non-telescopable section and extending out from said non-telescopable section and each other when telescoping, and an internal extendable and retractable serpentine conveying belt situated within said means of non-telescopable and telescopable sections and further comprising a tension control means to tension said conveying belt as desired and to detension said belt below said telscopable sections on a plurality of rollers when not in use and able to convey approximately 150 yards of material per hour and which extendable and retractable telescoping sections weigh approximately 3,000 lbs.
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