Patent ID: 9371187
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: A01D,B65G

Claim Text:
1. A belt in tube conveyor system, comprising: a conveyor tube having an open intake end in connection with a passage through the tube, and a lower portion bounding a lower periphery of the intake end and the passage, having an upwardly facing concave shape; an endless belt having a concave portion extending into the passage through the intake end, supported on the lower portion of the tube, and a transition portion outwardly of the intake end wherein the belt transitions from a flat shape to the upwardly facing concave shape of the lower portion of the tube, the transition portion disposed between a crop delivery apparatus and the concave portion; a drive configured and Operable to move the belt at a feed velocity and in a feed direction through the intake end into the passage; and the crop delivery apparatus configured and positioned to propel a flow of crop material at a crop velocity vector at least a majority of which is in the feed direction onto the concave portion of the belt or crop material previously deposited on the concave portion in a generally horizontal direction over the transition portion, as the belt is moved at the feed velocity in the feed direction.