Gutehoffnungshutte Sterkrade Aktiengesellschaft

Aumond-fordererbau Gmbh Maschinenfabrik

Karl H Koster

Roland Gunther

A connection unit, which may be undone, for rope ends and more particularly ropes in the form of belts for driving systems, rope conveyors or ropes for lifting loads has, as part of a preferred example, a plate with two rope keepers supported on pins and which keep the rope ends in position thereon by way of stops. These rope end keepers or takeup parts are designed so that they may be turned and locked in position so that, dependent on the direction of turning, the rope may be taken up and made shorter or let off and made longer. The plate, as part of a further example of the invention, has guide parts for positively guiding the rope end and furthermore there is a guiding structure, designed to match the form of a driving sheave so that it may be run thereover.

Wire rope connector with length adjustment capacity

A bucket conveyor comprises a drive pulley and at least one guide pulley with endless traction cable means engaged over the guide pulley and the drive pulley. A bucket member or a conveyor trough has an axle thereon on each side and with a pulley on the axle. In one embodiment the pulley is pivotal on the axle and in another embodiment the pulley is fixed on the axle. In addition, the construction includes a guide pin on the trough on each side of the axle and the endless traction cable is trained around each guide pin and has a loop engaged over the pulley between the pins. In this manner the endless cable is guided between the drive pulley and the guide pulley and around the pin of each bucket and over the bucket pulley on an axle of the bucket and around the pin on the opposite side of the bucket pulley. The construction is applicable both for a fixed bucket in respect to the traction cable or a bucket that pivots or swings in respect thereto and in which the bucket pulley is rotatable on its bucket axle.

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Essen, Germany

Karl H Koster