Patent ID: 9637322
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B65G

Claim:
1. A belt conveyor apparatus comprising: a tube mounted on a frame supported on wheels for travel on a ground surface, the tube sloping upward from a lower intake end to an upper discharge end; a hopper extending outward along the ground surface from the lower intake end of the tube; a belt with an upper run passing along a hopper floor of the hopper then over a top S-roller of an S-roller assembly and under a bottom S-roller of the S-roller assembly, and up through the tube to the discharge end of the tube, and with a return run extending under the tube and hopper; wherein right and left sidewalls of the hopper extend upward and outward from side edges of the hopper floor; resilient right and left bottom seal strips, each bottom seal strip extending from a front end of the hopper to a rear portion of the hopper over the top S-roller and fastened along an upper edge thereof to a corresponding sidewall such that a lower edge of each bottom seal strip bears against a top surface of the belt adjacent to a side edge of the belt; resilient right and left top seal strips, each top seal strip extending from the front end of the hopper to the rear portion of the hopper over the top S-roller and fastened along an upper edge thereof to a corresponding sidewall on top of the corresponding bottom seal strip such that a lower edge of each top seal strip bears against a top surface of the belt beside the lower edge of the corresponding bottom seal strip.