FOERFARANDE OCH ANORDNING FOER TOEMNING AV ETT HAELLBART AEMNE FRAON EN STOR BEHAOLLARE.

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP84/00409 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 28, 1985 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 28, 1985 PCT Filed Dec. 18, 1984 PCT Pub. No. WO85/03279 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 1, 1985.An endless conveyor belt 10 provided with angled-over entraining cleats 12 as well as lateral corrugated sidewalls 11 serves the purpose of unloading bulk material 1 from a ship 2 in particular, which not only carries the bulk material 1 out of the ship 2 but also picks the same up automatically. The conveyor belt 10 hangs down with both legs 10' and 10'' from an upper driving drum 20 within a conveyor framework 3 and runs freely below the conveyor framework 3 in a loop 21 formed merely under the action of the weight of the conveyor belt without application of external tensioning devices. The conveyor framework 3 is lowered so far into the bulk material 1 that the loop 21 shortens in vertical direction and the conveyor belt 10 digs into and picks up the bulk material 1 with the entraining cleats 12. A vertically displaceable delimiting drum 27 in the loop 21 prevents an excessive lateral displacement of the loop 21 as a reaction to the scooping action.