Patent ID: 7849820

Claim:
A machine for loading livestock via alternating conveyor belts, comprising: a main conveyor section comprising a conveyor belt, and having a lift section and a top section, the main conveyor section conveyor belt traversing the lift section and the top section, said lift section and top section articulatable each relative to the other, the top section being extendable and retractable, and the main conveyor section being raisable and lowerable; the machine also comprised of a major assembly comprising the top section, a swing belt section depending from and communicating with said top section, and an auto-loader section depending from the swing belt section, such that the swing belt section is disposed between the top section and the autoloader section, and can communicate with both the said auto-loader section and the top section, and such that the top section, the swing belt section, and the auto-loader section comprise conveyor belts independent of one another and independently variable each relative to the other, the autoloader section comprising a plurality of independent, independently variable, conveyor belts, configured essentially side-by-side said auto-loader section conveyor belts being independently extendable and retractable, said swing belt section being pivotable to alternately communicate with any one or another of the plurality of autoloader section conveyor belts.