Patent ID: 8662291

Claim:
A telescopic belt conveyor including a base conveyor unit, an outer conveyor unit and one or more intermediate conveyor units, the outer conveyor unit and the one or more intermediate conveyor units being mounted on the base conveyor unit and extendable telescopically therefrom in an extension direction, the outer conveyor unit including a pivotable conveyor section that is mounted for pivoting movement about a substantially horizontal pivot axis, and a conveyor belt supported by the base conveyor unit, the outer conveyor unit and the one or more intermediate conveyor units, the conveyor belt providing a conveyor surface that extends continuously along an upper surface of the base conveyor unit, the outer conveyor unit and the one or more intermediate conveyor units, said pivotable conveyor section having a free end remote from said pivot axis whose height relative to a ground surface may be adjusted by pivoting movement of the pivotable conveyor section, wherein the outer conveyor unit is telescopically extendable from a retracted position in which the pivotable conveyor section is nested within an adjacent conveyor unit.