Neil F Archer

US Patent:

53500539, Sep 27, 1994

Filed:

Nov 22, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/796420

Inventors:

Neil Archer - Paducah KY

Assignee:

Arch Environmental Equipment, Inc. - Paducah KY

International Classification:

B65G 4719

US Classification:

198525

Abstract:

An input station for a belt conveyor of the kind including a continuous conveyor belt that moves in a conveyor run through an input station to a discharge location, around a head pulley, and in a return run around a tail pulley back to the input station and the conveyor run. At the input station the conventional center support rollers are retained but the support rollers along the sides of the belt are replaced by a plurality of elongated, stationary, flat support members that support the sides of the conveyor belt throughout the input station, improving the seal to input station skirtboards and materially reducing or eliminating input leakage while maintaining roller support and flexibility in the center of the belt, with minimal friction increase.

US Patent:

59274786, Jul 27, 1999

Filed:

May 9, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/853822

Inventors:

Neil F. Archer - Paducah KY

Assignee:

Arch Environmental Equipment, Inc. - Paducah KY

International Classification:

B65G 1508

US Classification:

198823

Abstract:

An input station for a wide continuous conveyor belt that moves in a conveyor run through an input station to a discharge location, around a head pulley, through a return run around a tail pulley, and back into the input station. At the input station the belt rides on a plurality of N conventional central support rollers each mounted between two inner stanchions. A plurality of at least 2N elongated, flat, stationary slider rails support each extreme outer edge of the conveyor belt through the input station. There are 2N troughing rolls, one at each end of each central roller, between the slider rails and the central rollers. 2N fixed inner stanchions support each central roller and one end of each of its troughing rollers. 2N fixed medial support members each support one end of a troughing roller. The slider rails are supported by the medial support members and by 2N outer stanchions.