Patent ID: 8794429

Claim:
A pan section for combined conveying and winning apparatuses in particular for underground mining, the pan section comprising a bottom run and a top run for guiding driver elements of a conveyor chain, the pan section further comprising a welded frame structure which includes two oppositely facing side cheeks each formed by a one-piece rolled profile and the each profile having a constant profile shape from one end to the other end, the each profile shape comprising a bottom leg and a top leg, which are angled outward in the assembled state, and a rising intermediate leg which connects the bottom leg and the top leg and which is provided with an offset formed on an inside surface which includes at least one step for supporting and welding at least one intermediate plate stiffening the rolled profiles in the frame structure, the each profile further comprising mounting pockets for detachable pan-section connectors which are welded on the outside of the each profile between the top leg and the bottom leg close to both ends, the pan section further including a substructure connected to the bottom legs of the rolled profiles which connects both bottom legs to one another and the substructure being spaced from the at least one intermediate plate, the pan section further including mounting pieces positioned at the both ends of the profiles below the bottom legs and extend on both sides of the bottom legs, the mounting pieces, on a top side of the pan section extending inwards, each having a fastening slope for bearing strips for the vertical support of the driver elements in the bottom run, and a transverse-force transmission having apertures disposed below the fastening slopes and inward of the bottom legs.