INCLINED CONVEYOR WITH AIR-SUPPORTED BELT Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B65G15/08 B65G43/06 

FIELD: conveyor construction.

SUBSTANCE: conveyor comprises the closed-loop belt placed in the vertical plane, forming the upper load-bearing and lower non-operating branches, prop elements for the belt, and the conveyor frame. Under the load-bearing and the non-operating branches of the belt, the flexible steel wire cable elements are placed along the conveyor with equal distances between them and at a minimum distance from the belt branches. The free ends of the flexible elements are fixed with clamps to the ends of the horizontally and vertically located levers affixed to the knee joints, symmetrically with the lengthway axis of the conveyor, and oriented towards the belt in its original positioning. Each knee joint is installed provided the turning possibility against the vertical axis located at the console of the conveyor's support, which the stop block is fixed to, in order to prevent the knee joints from turning in the load-bearing belt branch movement direction at the moments of its incidental contact with flexible elements.

EFFECT: providing durable capturing of the load-bearing and non-operating branches of the inclined conveyor belt after its breakage.

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