VIBRATING FEEDER Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: mining facilities; discharge of ore from units and hoppers. SUBSTANCE: vibrating feeder has load-carrying chute with shock absorbers, supporting frame and vibrating drive consisting of motor with V-belt drive to vibrating feeder installed on supporting frame. It has housing accommodating driving and driven shafts with unbalance weights, centers of masses of unbalance weights being located at one side of axis, synchronizing gears connecting the shafts, and drive pulley installed on driving shaft. Drive pulley is secured by means of spacer bushing with eccentricity displaced through 180^o relative to centers of mass of unbalance weights. EFFECT: simplified design, possibility of control of load-carrying chute vibration amplitude. 4 dwg