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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Siegfrid Schmidt, Bottrop, DE;
Gerhard Merten, Lünen, DE;
Hans Meya, Werne, DE;
Jörg Wirtz, Witten, DE;
Ingo Pruss, Wuppertal, DE;
Karl-heinz Schürer, Herne, DE;
Kauu Brüggemann, Legal Representative, Dortmünd, DE;
Siegfrid Schmidt, Bottrop, DE;
Gerhard Merten, Lünen, DE;
Hans Meya, Werne, DE;
Jörg Wirtz, Witten, DE;
Ingo Pruss, Wuppertal, DE;
Karl-Heinz Schürer, Herne, DE;
Kauu Brüggemann, legal representative, Dortmünd, DE;
DBT GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
An entry conveyor including a conveyor pan formed by a plurality of pan sections that are hingeably connected to each other, at the two ends of which conveyor pan drive stations and/or return stations for a scraper chain are provided. Each pan section includes a top strand delimited by lateral profiles and the conveyor base and a bottom strand for the scraper chain as well as receiving elements for a pan section connecting mechanism, which elements are disposed outside of the lateral profiles. A pan strand including a plurality of pan sections that are disposed behind each other is provided in the conveyor pan, which sections are hingeably coupled via a center swivel bearing disposed on the center longitudinal axis of the conveyor pan or the pan sections. The invention also relates to the pan sections with the center swivel bearings.