Bucket conveyor
OwnerWaldemar Glowatzkiinventor
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Abstract
A bucket conveyor with a pair of parallel draw elements between which the buckets are supported on spindles about which they rotate pendulum fashion. Forward rollers are mounted on the ends of the spindles and rear rollers are mounted at the opposite edge of the bucket. Each bucket has a flange or lip which overlaps the top edge of an adjacent bucket. The rollers on the buckets engage guide rails to properly orient the buckets as they pass over return gears and from the loading area to the dumping area and back again. By maintaining proper orientation of the buckets, the load level of each bucket and thus the capacity of the conveyor is increased. The bucket conveyor is of simple design, has low wear and high conveying capacity.
Claims13
In a bucket conveyor comprising two endless laterally-spaced draw elements trained about drive gears and return gears to carry the buckets on a continuous loop having horizontal and vertical segments, spindles extending between said draw elements, buckets pivotally suspended at upper leading edges from said spindles, each bucket having a supporting lip at an upper trailing edge to form a mobile overlap with the leading edge of an adjacent bucket and guide means to locate the buckets positively, the improvement comprising
- guide means disposed in the segments of the loop which change direction
- from horizontal to vertical and vertical to horizontal
- lateral pins or rollers on said trailing edge adjacent said suporting lip,
- which pins or rollers engage said guide means whereby when the buckets face upwards in a horizontal segment, the trailing edge of the buckets is supported by said supporting lip which rests on the leading edge of the adjacent bucket and whereby when the buckets face outwardly of said loop in circling said return gears and said drive gears the buckets support one another by engagement of adjacent side walls of the buckets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.