Improvements in devices for supporting belt conveyors utilizable particularly in collieries

摘要

716,765. Idler supports for endless belt conveyers. ETABLISSEMENTS A. COLINET, and HERLAUD, F. A. Nov. 18, 1952, No. 29056/52. Class 78 (I). The trunnion 4 of an idler 5 is detachably secured in a recess 7 formed in an H-section bracket 2 by the limb 8 of a spring-controlled U-latch 9. The limb 8 is held in its recess-closing position by a spring 11 interposed between the inner face of a lower limb of the bracket and a washer 12 pinned at 13 on the limb 10 of the latch. The trunnion 4 is provided with a flat 14 to prevent it rotating in the recess 7.