Conduit means for a vibratory conveyor
AssigneeCarl Schenck AG
InventorsKarl Homilius, Fritz Stoff, Heinz Saettler, Wolfgang Scharmer
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Abstract
The present conduit or trough for a vibratory conveyor is constructed especially for transporting and/or treating bulk materials such a wood chips or the like. The trough or conduit is provided inside thereof with partition plates extending substantially across the transport direction. These partition plates take up part of the depth of the trough or conduit and may be arranged at an angle relative to the transport direction. Baffles may be arranged in the conduit or trough to extend away from the partition plates and substantially in the transport direction.
Claims19
In a vibratory conveyor conduit means for transporting bulk material at elevated temperatures in a given transport direction in the conduit means by vibratory movement thereof, wherein the conduit means has a bottom wall and a pair of side walls extending in said given direction;
- the improvement comprising a plurality of partition plates extending substantially across said conduit means between the side walls thereof and transversely of said transport direction, said partition plates extending through only a portion of the height of said conduit means at the bottom thereof beneath the surface of the bulk material transported therein, said partition plates dividing the bottom of said conduit means into separate compartments, and a layer of insulating material in each of said compartments to form a substantially continuous insulating layer on said bottom wall in the conduit means, said partition plates holding said insulating material in said compartments against movement out of said compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.