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US 2022/0204273 A1Published application
Trailing sandwich conveyor system for continuous mining machines along a high-angle tunnel
AssigneeDos Santos International, LLC
InventorJoseph Anibal Dos Santos
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Abstract
A continuous mining machine trailing conveyor system providing a sandwich belt system that incorporates a set of hugging modalities to ensure that the sandwich belt system provides sufficient friction.
Claims15
An angle-adjustable conveying apparatus for a tunnel boring machine (TBM), the apparatus comprising:
- a deck trailing the TBM;
- an endless bottom belt operatively associated with the deck and extending therefrom to a discharge end, wherein the bottom belt operatively associates with a deflection pulley just downstream of the deck so as to define a receiving belt portion of the bottom belt between the deck and the deflection pulley;
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- an endless cover belt operatively associated with the deck in such a way that the cover belt is urged against an upper surface of the bottom belt downstream of the deflection pulley.
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