TW200611870A - Bucket conveyor - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a bucket conveyor capable of preventing fall of a carried material downward through a clearance between adjacent buckets when throwing the carried material into the bucket. This bucket conveyor is provided with a sprocket 13, which is provided in a turning point between an approaching conveyance path B and a returning conveyance path C formed in a horizontal part 6 in parallel with each other in the vertical direction and which is formed with an external gear 53 to be engaged with link connection parts every other one so that two links 31 and 32 in front and rear structuring an endless chain 4 are arranged in a nearly straight line, and a guide member 16, which is extended along the approaching conveyance path B from a part near the outside of an upper end of the sprocket 13 to a front part riding over a supplying part 8 provided on the way of the horizontal part 6 and which guides the buckets so that a rear end of an opening of a front side bucket 3 and a front end of an opening of a rear side bucket 3 progressing in the approaching conveyance path B are overlapped with each other by engaging rotating roller (projection) 36 provided outside of the link connection parts with an upper and a lower surface in order.