DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTING FALLING MATERIALS IN A BELT CONVEYOR SYSTEM BY USING THE DAMAGED PORTION OF A SKIRT INSTALLED IN THE LOWER BELT CONVEYOR

摘要

PURPOSE: An automatic falling material collecting device of a belt conveyor system is provided to minimize lose of materials, and to prevent accidents and delay of process by automatically collecting and loading falling materials to the belt conveyor and restricting the falling materials from being inserted to the belt conveyor. CONSTITUTION: An automatic falling material collecting device is composed of a falling material storage part(12) installed in the lower part of a lower belt conveyor(108) to contain falling materials through the damaged portion of a skirt(106) mounted in the lower belt conveyor for transferring articles from an upper belt conveyor(100), a falling material transfer unit(14) mounted in the falling material storage part to transfer the falling material to the lower belt conveyor by shaking, and a falling material loading unit(26) arranged in the lower part of the falling material transfer unit to load the falling material from the falling material transfer unit to the lower belt conveyor.