Conveying device for open-cast mines

US6209711A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Koopmann · Erlangen, DE
• Dieter Weber · Leonberg, DE
• Christian Keller · Berlin, DE
• Werner Daus · Lauta, DE
• Siegfried Korber · Lieberose, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D7/0611
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A conveyor for opencast installations, is described, the conveyor includes at least one conveyor belt driven by at least one drive, or a device resembling a conveyor belt. Overburden or raw materials such as coal, for example, is extracted by an extracting unit and transported further by the conveyor belt.