LOOSE MATERIAL UNLOADER FILLING DEVICE Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: materials handling facilities; unloaders with conveyor belt moving along endless trajectory and furnished with buckets for material. SUBSTANCE: device has filling pulley with horizontal main axle and two wheels installed for rotation around main axle on which side parts of conveyor belt rest. Buckets pass between wheels. They are open in direction of filling pulley to receive material delivered axially through inlet hole in first of indicated wheels and tubular wall in form of truncated cone member with axis of symmetry passing in parallel with main axle. Truncated cone member is installed for rotation around indicated axis of symmetry. Truncated cone member is made widening from inlet hole towards buckets arranged between wheels to direct material into buckets. EFFECT: increased reliability of filling of unloader. 15 cl, 19 dwg