Tail station for a scraper chain conveyor and chain wheel assembly therefor

US8490779B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bucyrus Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Schurer · Herne, DE
• Armin Hoppe · Bochum, DE
• Robert Voigt · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 2, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 2, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G23/06
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A tail station for a scraper chain conveyor, in particular a transfer conveyor, including a machine frame having bearing holders, which are open at the margins, for a demountable chain wheel assembly, including a chain wheel assembly having a chain wheel shaft, a reversing chain wheel and bearing shells for the rotatable mounting of the chain wheel shaft, and having a deflector element assigned to the reversing chain wheel, the bearing holders being configured on cantilever arms connected to the machine frame and are upwardly open, wherein the chain wheel assembly is provided on the bearing shells with bearing blocks, which can be inserted with horizontal motional play into the bearing holders and are horizontally displaceable in the bearing holders between a removal position and a locking position.