Discharge device for a bunker

A discharge device for a loose material bunker for material which has poor flow properties and has a tendency to form bridges, comprising a discharge for arrangement below a conical bunker outlet, the discharge member being rotatable about a vertical axis and being arranged above a base plate having at least one discharge opening, and above the discharge opening fixed cover means is provided, characterised in that the discharge member includes at least one centrally mounted discharge disc driven at its periphery which projects horizontally beyond the lower rim of the bunker outlet and having openings separated from each other by bars, and in that each discharge opening is arranged eccentrically in the base plate and its cover means extends radially from the bunker outlet wall in the direction of the vertical axis and has adjusting means, operable from the outside, for adjusting the height above the disc surface of that edge of the cover means below which the disc first passes when it revolves.