Patent ID: 9415945
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: B65G

Claim Text:
1. A self-cleaning conveyor, comprising: a plurality of augers, each of said augers having a flight wound helically about an axis, each of said flights being a member of a pair of flights, said pairs being at least two in number, flights of each pair being of opposite handedness and being mutually and counter-rotationally intermeshed with respective axes substantially parallel, at least one flight of each pair being mutually and counterrotationally intermeshed with at least one flight of another pair, all of said flights having a common pitch, each of said flights having a front and a back, said front being approximated at a predetermined first clearance, as projected onto said axes, from a back of another of said flights, said back being approximated at said first clearance from a front of another of said flights, all of said plurality of flights being geared together so as to be rotatable at a common speed and so as to maintain said predetermined first clearance.