Bulk material handling system

Patent · 01 January 1979

OSTI ID:863381

Kleysteuber, William K ^[1]; Mayercheck, William D ^[2]

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1. Wexford, PA
2. New Stanton, PA

This disclosure relates to a bulk material handling system particularly adapted for underground mining and includes a monorail supported overhead and carrying a plurality of conveyors each having input and output end portions with the output end portion of a first of the conveyors positioned above an 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.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4159757
• OSTI ID: 863381
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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