Shuttle spreading conveyor
AssigneeAggregates Equipment, Inc.
InventorHarold F. Morrow, Jr.
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Abstract
An improved conveyor system with a leveling device for preventing the accumulation of material into distinct ridges at the top of the discharge pile and thus increasing the storage capacity of bins. A pivoting drag device is hung from the undercarriage of a shuttle conveyor so that, as the conveyor is moved across the material, the drag knocks the tops off the previously formed ridges and provides room for storage of material to a greater height.
Claims4
In a shuttle conveyor in which a movable trolley supports and transports a conveyor with means for unloading the conveyor at multiple points along its length, the improvement comprising:
- a free swinging drag leveler hung below and attached to the trolley, extending essentially the entire length of the conveyor, and of a weight sufficient so that, as the drag leveler is pulled forward by the shuttle conveyor, its lower edge trails behind that conveyor and when the drag leveler contacts a ridge of the surface of discharged material below the trolley, the drag leveler will pull the ridge of material into an adjacent valley.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.