US842900A - Conveyer. - Google Patents

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No. 842,900. PATENTEID FEB. 5, 1907. W. H. MORENUS 60F. R. JONES.

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Be it known that we, Wit-MAM H. MORE- NUS and FRANKR. Joni-2s, citizens of tie United States, residing, respectively, at Lake View, Sac county, Iowa, and Harvey, Cook county, Illinois, have invented, certain new and useful Improvements in Conveyers, of

which the following is a specification.

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Our invention relates to improvements in conveyors, and more especially to belt conveyers such as are used for the transportation. and conveying of dirt, gravel, coal, or the like.

The aim of our invention is to provide an improved method of making and a better con truction of side beam or bar for the frame than has heretofore been used in this art, and particularly in the art of agon-loading devices. For this purpose we take an ordinary channelbeam or bar of suitable dimensions and press or bulldoze the same so as to offset same, the external faces or surfaces of the ilanges, however, being maintained parallel, thereby affording convenient means for the attachment thereto of bearings or journalboxes of shafts rarrying rollers on which the bonveying-belt rests. The object of this peculiar construction is to secure a very rigid and firm structure and to use the side members of the frame as shields or protectors to shed or prevent the dirt, con], 01' other conveyed material which falls over the dges of the top part of the endless belt from'tumbling' onto the lower part thereof. I

On the accompanying" drawings, which form a part of this 'specificatiihi, and in do different views of which like characters refer to the same parts through out, we have illustrated a desirable and preferred embodiment of our invention.

Figure is'a fragmentary side elevation of a portion of a conveyer' embodying our invention which is used in a wagon-loading machine, and Fig. 2 is across-section of tiestructure shown in Fig. lion the line 2 2 as viewed in the direction indicated by the ar rows.

The longitudinal side beams or bars i0 of this conveyer-frame are made from ordinary channel-beams by' pressing: or bnlldozing the- Specificatidn of Letters Patent: I

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hcv. ever, of the top and bottom flanges being maintained parallel. In- Fig. 1 .ue have be readily understood that the transporting i or conveying belt 11 is of the endlessltype, passing over a suitable number of. rollers 1-2 I Y j shou n only a part of a conveyer; but ituill l and aroundan endroller '13 at each end of,

i the conveyor. The shafts of rollers12 are J rotatably mounted in suitable bearingsv 14, bolted or otherwise conveniently secured to 'the top flanges .of the side beams 10; It 5 should be noted that the width. of belt 11 is, i such that it overlies these hearings or jour-' rial-boxes 14 and the top flanges of beams 10, while the underportion of the belt or that part 'wlziclrtravels beneath the rollers extends below the bent u ebs of the side beams, all as is clearly show 11 in Fig. 2. It w ill thus be apparent that any dirt orother conveyed material on the top face of the upper part of the endless belt 11 which drops off of the sidesof the-belt w ill neither fall -upon the bearings nor upon the low er portion of the 5 belt, since thebent vv ebs of beams 10 act as shields or aprons to deflect the falling dirt. It is perfectly obvious that'if the dirt w ere allowed to fall upon the lost er art of belt 11 it (would we se'annoyance an trouble by atatemp'tingr t0 pass between the belt and the end roller L3. The side bars or beams of the able number of angle-bars 15, depressed at their central portion, 'as illustrated in Fig. 2. The horizontal flanges of these cross-tie bars are bolted to the top flanges of the channel side beam, as indicated at 16, the bars, howextent, as indicated, the ends being riveted or bolted at 17 to properly-bent angle-barsf 18, which at their lower ends are riveted to the vertical portions of the webs of beams 10 at 19 and at tleir upper inwardly-oflset ends to longitudinal side boards 20.

i A conveyer of the type illustrated is used by us in a waQon-loadingdevice which is drawn forwardly either by draft-animals or a traction-engine and is equipped with a plow which throws the dirt onto the traveling 1 inclined belt 11. This belt carries the dirt up the incline above the Wagon to be loaded, and as it turns around the upper pulley or frame are tied together crosswise by a suit cvcr, projecting beyond th ese flanges to some same so as to oifset inwardly thenpper p'or- I roller 13 (not shown) it delivrsthe, dirt or IOf tion or half of the beam, tine ext rnal faces,

I drops the same-into the wagon-body, the

belt returning. between the side frame-beanie 10. Inasmuch as there is a possibility of theupper end of this conveyer being struck either by the Wagons which carry away the dirt or coming inviolent contact with a tree or other stationary object as the wagon-' loader advances, it .is necessary to make the frame of this conveyer unusually strong, and

' for that reason it is desirable to make the have discovered that the peculiar shape-of side beams of the frame in one piece.

beam desired can be produced from an ordinary channel-beam by pressing or. bulldozing, and since these c.-1annel-bea1ns in their new form are unitary structures they possess the adequate strength necessary to withstand the rough usage to which machines of this character are subjected.

" We have not gone into the details of our wagon-loader, since our invention is limited to the conveying parts of the same, and more particularly to the method of producing the side members of the frame to form beams or bars of the shape shown and described.

1. A conveyerrframe having va channel side. member approximately one-half of whose web isoffset, the exterior surfaces of 'the' channels flanges being parallel, substantially-as described.

2. oonveyer-frarne having a .ehannei side member, the upper longitudinal'jpart of 'which\ is inwardly ofiset, the exterior surfaces of the channels flanges being parallel,

substantially as described.

. 3. In a conveyer, the combination of a frame; the side members of which are channels, the upper parts of which are inwardly offset and the flanges of whic project out- Wardly with their exterior su ces parallel,

suitably-mounted rollers, and an endless,

Witnessesto the signature of William H. Morenus:

E. P. HARTMAN, W. J. WESTROMQ Witnesses to the signature of Frank "R. Jones:

' JNOLESEAR'IGHT,

W. C. HILL.

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