Conveying system

• US 8,342,774 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2009
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Joseph Voegele AG (Deere & Company)
• Original Assignee: Joseph Vã¶Gele AG (Deere & Company)
• Inventors: Fickeisen, Steffen
• Primary Examiner(s): Will, Thomas B
• Assistant Examiner(s): RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE
• Application Number:
  US12/398,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20100040412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: 404/95, 404/108, 198/952
• US Class Current: 404/95
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 69/20 Auxiliary treatments, e.g. aerating, heating, humidifying, deaerating, cooling, de-watering or drying, during loading or unloading; Loading or unloading in a fluid medium other than air
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 19/48 for laying-down the materials and consolidating them, or finishing the surface , e.g. slip forms therefor, forming kerbs or gutters in a continuous operation in situ E01C19/002, E01C23/065 take precedence; devices for guiding or controlling the machines along a predetermined path E01C19/004
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 2301/04 Independent shuttles

Abstract

A conveying system for conveying material having a tendency to stick, in particular a mobile conveying system for paving material used for constructing road mats has at least one conveying element which is accommodated in a conveying channel. The conveying element is directly or indirectly driven by at least one combustion engine. The conveying system has a primary heating device predominantly for the conveying element and/or the conveying system. Furthermore, the conveying system has at least one secondary heating device for at least partially relieving the primary heating device. The secondary heating device is operated with direct or indirect exit heat of the combustion engine. Alternatively, a combination of a primary heating device and at least one secondary heating device is provided, which secondary heating device is operated with exit heat originating from the combustion engine in order to at least partially relieve the primary heating device.

Claims

1. Conveying system for conveying paving material used for constructing road mats, comprising:

at least one conveying element accommodated in a conveying channel and driven directly or indirectly by at least one combustion engine having an exhaust system,

the combustion engine being encapsulated in an insulated engine station having at least one ambient air inlet opening facing the ground,

a primary heating device for heating the conveying element, and

an apparatus for conducting ambient air from the ambient air inlet and heat emitted by the combustion engine and the engine exhaust system without directly introducing gases from the exhaust system of the combustion engine to the conveying channel and for flushing the conveying element with the heated air to at least partially relieve the simultaneously operating primary heating device.

2. A conveying system according to claim 1, the apparatus for conducting heat emitted by the combustion engine includes an engine exit air collecting and/or guiding system extending from the encapsulated combustion engine station into the region of the conveying element.

3. A conveying system according to claim 1, wherein the primary heating device is functionally associated-to one side of the conveying element, and the apparatus for conducting ambient air and heat emitted by the combustion engine is functionally associated to the other-side of the conveying element.

4. The conveying apparatus of claim 1, including a heat exchanger associated in the encapsulated combustion engine with the exhaust system of the combustion engine, the heat exchanger taking heat from the exhaust system emitted from the combustion engine in the exhaust gases and supplying heat taken from the exhaust system to the apparatus for conducting heat to the conveying channel.

5. The conveying apparatus of claim 1, wherein the encapsulated combustion engine station contains an additional fan for flushing the conveying element with the heated air.