Improvements in Conveyors for use in Mines

2523. Gibbons, W. P., Reed, E. A., and Baddeley, H. Jan. 31. Conveyers.-Relates to band conveyers for use in mines, and consists in means whereby the conveyer may be worked in other than a straight line. Fig. 1 shows a plan of one form of the invention, and Fig. 10 shows a joint of the conveyer band. The framework of the conveyer is made in short sections of parallel tubes or rods, so connected that they can be arranged at an angle to follow the working face a, b. The end sections carry the driving and tensioning drums respectively, the latter being adjusted by means of screws. The conveyer band is made in short sections connected by a pin 16 which passes through wire loops 14, 15, made longer towards the edges of the band so that each band section can have some lateral angular movement relative to the next. A short plate 19, indicated by the broken lines, covers the band joint and is secured to one section by rivets 20. Instead of a band in short sections, the arrangement shown in Fig. 12 may be adopted. Two or more separate straight conveyers G, H, made up of the short sections, are connected at an angle, so that the cover H, which is driven in the ordinary manner, may drive the conveyer G through a universal joint and the gear shown. Specifications Nos. 11,273 and 14,953, A.D. 1904, and No. 320, A.D. 1906, are referred to.