BELT CONVEYOR Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: carriage of friable materials. SUBSTANCE: for delivering carried material onto load-carrying surface of endless load branch of two-circuit conveyor directly from feeder of a simple loading device, the upper side of hold-down belt loop in the zone of the feeder must be shifted to one side of the conveyor supporting structure and the same must be done before the unloading mechanism. Provision of side branches in the form of a belt loop of the hold-down endless circuit in the zone of loading and unloading devices as well as arrangement of the load circuit inside the hold-down circuit constitutes the substance of the claimed invention. EFFECT: exposure of load-carrying surface of load circuit by shifting upper branch of hold-down belt circuit to one side of conveyor supporting framework under the feeder and before the unloading unit permits using the simplest loading and unloading devices which are more reliable, and rules out spilling of the carried material. 1 dwg