Patent ID: 8876526

Claim:
A method for delivering sinter material from a sinter belt onto a sinter cooler by means of a delivery chute, comprising: introducing the sinter material leaving the sinter belt into the delivery chute, dividing the sinter material by distributor plates into at least two sinter material subflows flowing in different directions, each sinter material subflow having its flow direction dictated by the distributor plate over which it flows, and wherein the flow directions of the sinter material subflows are represented by subflow flow-direction vectors and, for the angle made by the subflow flow-direction vectors with a horizontal plane, with angles measured in the same direction, for a pair of directly neighboring sinter material subflows, the subflow flow-direction vector of one sinter material subflow makes an obtuse angle with the horizontal plane and the subflow flow-direction vector of the other sinter material subflow makes an acute angle with the horizontal plane, combining the sinter material subflows into a sinter material total flow flowing obliquely downward, the flow direction of which is represented by a total flow flow-direction vector, the horizontal principal components of the subflow flow-direction vectors being substantially perpendicular to the horizontal principal component of the total flow flow-direction vector, wherein the sinter material subflows are guided into the lateral edges of the sinter material total flow as seen in the flow direction of the sinter material total flow, and delivering the sinter material total flow onto a sinter cooler after at least one reversal of its flow direction by the base plate of the delivery chute.