LOADING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC E02F7/00 E02F3/50 E21C50/00 

FIELD: machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a device for extracting minerals from the seabed and can be used, for example, for loading cargo buckets of the mechanism for lifting bottom sediment from the seabed to the surface. Loading device includes a housing, a drum with blades and a rotary drive. Shaft of the drum with blades is placed in the middle part of the longitudinal walls of the housing. Foot feeder with a drive mechanism is placed on the bottom of the housing. Loading device housing is made in the form of two longitudinal walls connected by the bottom with a guide groove and a front cross connection. Roller is mounted on the front cross connection with the possibility of vertical movement by means of a screw mechanism with a worm gear. Loading device is rigidly connected with the lifting mechanism and contains the receiving, tensioning and clamping sprockets of a chain conveyor. Shafts of sprockets are installed on the longitudinal walls of the housing in the bearings. Shaft axis of a clamping sprocket is installed above a shaft axis of a receiving sprocket with the possibility of horizontal movement. Ends of the shaft of the clamping sprocket are placed in the holes of the heads of spring-loaded pushers. Springs of the spring-loaded pushers rest against the bottoms of the foot nozzles mounted on the longitudinal walls of the housing.

EFFECT: technical result is an effective filling of the cargo tanks of the lifting mechanism.

3 cl, 8 dwg