Bulk material handling system

Patent · Tue Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5378369

Kleysteuber, W K; Mayercheck, W D

This disclosure relates to a bulk material handling system particularly adapted for underground mining and includes a monorail supported overhead which carries a plurality of conveyors each having input and output end portions with the output end portion of a first of the conveyors positioned above the input end portion of a second of the conveyors, a device for imparting motion to the conveyors to move the material from the input end portions toward the output end portions thereof, a device for supporting at least one of the input and output end portions of the first and second conveyors from the monorail, and the supporting device including a plurality of trolleys rollingly supported by the monorail whereby the conveyors can be readily moved therealong. 15 claims.

• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): US 4159757
• OSTI ID: 5378369
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 4 May 1977; Other Information: PAT-APPL-793,664
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
CONVEYORS
DESIGN
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COAL MINING
MATERIALS HANDLING
UNDERGROUND MINING
EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MINING
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