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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1993
Filed:
May. 03, 1991
Richard W Ambs, Williamsport, PA (US);
Steven Kelchner, Linden, PA (US);
The Young Industries, Muncy, PA (US);
Abstract
A conveyor for bulk materials comprising first and second housings, a pair of conduits interconnecting the housings to provide a circuitous path, one of the housings and the conduits having means for feeding material therein, one of the housings and the conduits having means for discharging material therefrom, a sprocket mounted in each of the housings, means for driving one of the sprockets, and a rope assembly including a nylon-coated metallic wire rope disposed in the housings and the conduits, along the circuitous path, and reeved around the sprockets, metallic end ferrules press-fit onto and welded to opposing, exposed end portions of the rope, a plurality of intermediate metallic ferrules press-fit onto the nylon coating of the rope at spaced intervals between the end ferrules, and a plurality of disc assemblies mounted on the rope and received within spaced recesses provided on the peripheries of the sprockets, each of the disc assemblies inlcuding a single boss and a single disc mounted on the rope and secured together with a ferrule therebetween.