Conveyor apparatus

• US 3,154,189 A
• Filed: 07/08/1963
• Issued: 10/27/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dudley J O'Hanlon, Peter C De Graff
• Original Assignee: Dudley J O'Hanlon, Peter C De Graff
• Inventors: O'hanlon, Dudley J., DE GRAFF PETER C
• Application Number:
  US04/293,447
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• US Class Current: 198/311
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2812/015 the conveyors being movably linked
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 37/00 Combinations of mechanical conveyors of the same kind, or of different kinds, of interest apart from their application in particular machines or use in particular manufacturing processes series of co-operating belt conveyor units B65G15/22; series of co-operating chain conveyor units B65G17/26; sequence control of combined conveyors B65G43/10

Claims

1. A CONVEYOR APPARATUS COMPRISING A PORTABLE ELEVATOR INCLUDING AN ELONGATED BODY MEMBER PROVIDED WITH A WAY AND AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAY, SUPPORTING WHEELS ON WHICH THE ELEVATOR BODY MEMBER IS MOUNTED FOR TRANSLATION THEREOF AND FOR VERTICAL TILTING ADJUSTMENT, A HOPPER INCLUDING AN ELONGATED BODY MEMBER PROVIDED WITH A WAY AND WITH AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAY, COUPLING MEANS FOR SUPPORTINGLY AND PIVOTALLY COUPLING SAID HOPPER BODY MEMBER TO THE FRONT END OF SAID ELEVATOR BODY MEMBER WITH THE INNER END OF THE HOPPER CONVEYOR IN DISCHARGING RELATION TO THE SAID ELEVATOR CONVEYOR AND WHICH PERMITS THE PIVOTAL ADJUSTMENT OF SAID HOPPER BODY MEMBER TO COLLAPSED POSITION UPON AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE ELEVATOR BODY MEMBER AND TO OUTWARDLY PROJECTING VARIABLE USE POSITIONS, SAID COUPLING MEANS COMPRISING UPWARDLY PROJECTING LATERALLY SPACED BRACKETS DISPOSED AT THE FRONT END OF SAID ELEVATOR BODY MEMBER AND BETWEEN WHICH THE INNER END OF SAID HOPPER BODY MEMBER IS DISPOSED, SAID HOPPER BODY MEMBER HAVING COUPLING MEMBERS PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON SAID BRACKETS, A COUNTERBALANCE SPRING ADJUSTABLY CONNECTED AT ITS OUTER END TO SAID HOPPER BODY MEMBER IN SUBSTANTIALLY SPACED RELATION TO ITS PIVOTAL CONNECTION TO SAID BRACKETS ON SAID ELEVATOR, A FLEXIBLE CONNECTOR MEMBER FOR THE INNER END OF SAID SPRING TO ONE OF SAID COUPLING MEMBERS ON SAID HOPPER, SAID COUPLING MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH AN UPWARDLY PROJECTING ARM WITH WHICH SAID SPRING CONNECTOR IS SLIDABLY AND GUIDINGLY ENGAGED AND WHICH IS PROVIDED WITH A LUG WITH WHICH SAID SPRING CONNECTOR MEMBER ENGAGES WHEN THE HOPPER REACHES PARTIALLY COLLAPSED POSITION ABOVE SAID ELEVATOR, ONE OF SAID BRACKETS BEING PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY SPACED HOLES, SAID COUPLING MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH A PROJECTING LUG DISPOSED IN OVERLAPPING RELATION TO THE PORTION OF THE BRACKET HAVING THE SPACED HOLES THEREIN, AND ANCHORING PINS FOR SAID LUG SELECTIVELY ENGAGEABLE WITH HOLES IN SAID BRACKET WHEREBY SAID COUPLING MEMBER MAY BE ADJUSTABLY SECURED AND THEREBY SUPPORT THE HOPPER IN SELECTED ANGULAR USE POSITIONS.