Patent ID: 8506232

Claim:
A conveyor vehicle including a chassis, engine and wheels, and further comprising: a rotating main turret; an outflow conveyor mounted on the main turret and configured to be rotated relative to the vehicle through rotation of the main turret; a feed turret assembly configured for movement between a lowered storage position and a raised operational position, at least a portion of the feed turret assembly rotatable independent of the main turret; a feed conveyor connected to the feed turret assembly and rotatable with rotation of at least a portion of the feed turret assembly, a discharge end of the feed conveyor connected to the feed turret assembly and positioned above the outflow conveyor when the feed turret assembly is in the raised operational position, wherein when the feed turret assembly is in the raised operational position material being carried along the feed conveyor discharges from the discharge end of the feed conveyor downward onto the outflow conveyor and transferred along the outflow conveyor to a distal end, the feed conveyor comprising first and second continuous sections, the first section attached to the feed turret assembly at a first angle below the horizontal and the second section hingedly attached to the first section at an angle that descends from the horizontal at a steeper angle than the first angle, the first section connected to the feed turret at the first angle when in the lowered storage position, the first angle selected to result in the first section being approximately horizontal when the feed turret assembly is in its lowered storage position.