Patent ID: 7726465

Claim:
An apron feeder comprising: a plurality of transport flights configured for travel in a continuous elongated loop having top and bottom sides and configured to convey materials on the top side from a feed end to an outlet end of the apron feeder; a scroll element mounted at the feed end of the apron feeder configured to catch material spilling off in front of the feed end, said scroll element having an elongated flat portion extending beneath a portion of the bottom side of the loop of transport flights in a substantially parallel orientation; a wiper element mounted on a transport flight configured to clean material caught by the scroll element as the wiper element moves from the bottom side to the top side of the loop with the flight to which the wiper element is mounted; and a grizzly element mounted on a transport flight to break apart material caught on the scroll element before the wiper element cleans the material from the scroll element.