Patent ID: 8297846

Claim:
A conveyor system for transporting a material to be conveyed along a horizontal transport direction, having: a first roll being rotatable around a rotation axis; a flexible, continuous conveyor element revolving in engagement with a circumference of said first roll; and a bearing arrangement for a pivot bearing of said first roll, said bearing arrangement comprising a bearing carrier extending orthogonally to said rotation axis, said bearing carrier having a bearing receiving region azimuthally enclosing said pivot bearing in the bearing receiving region of a radially outer circumference thereof, with an azimuth angle corresponding to an enclosed radially circumferential region defined as being enclosed by the bearing receiving region is less than 360°, the pivot bearing in the enclosed radially circumferential region being tensioned relative to the bearing receiving region by the force resulting from the engagement between the first roll and said conveyor element, and wherein a free circumferential region of the pivot bearing is defined as being opposite said enclosed radially circumferential region, said free circumferential region comprising a portion of a continuous orbit extending orthogonal to said horizontal transport direction and to said rotation axis, wherein, within said free circumferential region, the bearing carrier and the conveyor element do not intersect when viewing their projections onto a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis, such as to allow said bearing arrangement to completely converge on an adjoining roll; wherein said conveyor element runs on said continuous orbit, said first roll brings about the deflection of said conveyor element at one end of said continuous orbit, and wherein said conveyor element runs on a second roll disposed at a distance from said first roll, said second roll bringing about the deflection at an other end of the continuous orbit, such that said horizontal transport direction of said material to be conveyed corresponds to a horizontal extension of said conveyor element between said first and said second roll in an upper portion of said continuous orbit.