BELT CONVEYOR Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: materials handling facilities; conveyor belt aligning devices. SUBSTANCE: belt conveyor has frame, end drums mounted on frame, deflecting rollers engaging with edges of carrying and return runs of belt at its slipping off. Rollers arranged diagonally relative to belt length. Axes of rotation of each pair of deflecting rollers are arranged, relative to central axes of nearest end drums, at a distance from drum equal to 0.6-0.8 of drum diameter. EFFECT: simplified design of conveyor belt aligning mechanism. 2 dwg