Patent ID: 6708817
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
A drive and tensioning station of a chain scraper conveyor for mining operations with a machine frame base having side cheeks and a conveyor base, connected to a line of pans of the chain scraper conveyor, with a tensioning frame head which can be moved in the direction of the line of pans, in whose side cheek plates can be mounted the chain drum for the scraper chain, and with a tensioning drive having at least one tensioning cylinder to move the tensioning frame head relative to the machine frame base, in which the tensioning frame head has a box-like drawer extending out over the side cheek plates toward the pan connecting side, which is guided in a type of drawer guide on the machine frame base and in which on the tensioning frame head a top run pan forming a drag plate in the top run or a bottom run box forming a drag base in the bottom run is removably fastened.