- Industry: Mining
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A conveyor consisting of a rope with disks or buttons attached at intervals, the upper flight running in a trough. The coal or other material is dropped into the trough, and the conveyor either is actuated by the weight of the coal in the trough when the trough is inclined forming a retarding conveyor, or moves the coal along the trough where the gradient is insufficient or adverse. In the one case a brake is provided; in the other, the sprockets are actuated by a motor.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor consisting of an endless belt used to transport material from one place to another.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor consisting of an endless belt, or one or more chains, to which are attached projecting arms, or shelves, for handling packages or objects in a vertical or inclined path.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor designed to transport material along a line of troughs by means of a reciprocating or shaking motion.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor for carrying bulk materials in a horizontal path consisting of an endless chain to which roller-supported, cam-operated, bottom-discharge conveyor buckets are attached continuously.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor for handling coal, grain, cement, or similar bulk materials. It comprises a horizontal shaft, with helical paddles or ribbons, which turn on its center line inside a stationary tube filled with the material.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor having a belt drive mechanism in which the conveyor belt is in contact with two drive pulleys, both of which are driven with the same motor.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor having a belt drive mechanism in which the conveyor belt is in contact with two drive pulleys, each of which is driven by a separate motor.
Industry:Mining
A conveyor in which an endless chain, having wide links carrying projections or wings, is dragged through a trough into which the material to be conveyed is fed; it is used for loose material.
Industry:Mining
