Jet ventilated conveyor tray
OwnerAllan M. Carlyleinventor
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Abstract
Jet ventilated trays for a fluidizer conveyor for processing particulate material permit gas to pass up through slots between the slats, and sufficient gas passes through the slots to prevent fine particles falling through the trays. The ventilated tray has a plurality of slats arranged transversely to the direction of travel of the particulate material on the conveyor, adjacent slats overlap in the direction of travel leaving longitudinal slots at leading edges of top slats for gas flow therethrough. The use of a wet particulate material on the tray allows scrubbing and filtering applications.
Claims8
A ventilated tray for conveying particulate material on a vibrating conveyor comprising:
- a plurality of overlapping slats arranged transversely to the direction of travel of the particulate material on the conveyor, each slat having a leading edge and a trailing edge, and the slats being shaped to cooperate to form a generally planar surface over which particulate material is conveyed by vibratory motion of the slats;
- adjacent slats overlapping in the direction of travel of the particulate material leaving transverse longitudinal slots at the leading edges of top slats for gas flow therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.