NEIL FRANCIS ARCHER
Pilots at White Pne Pl, Paducah, KY

5927478, Jul 27, 1999

May 9, 1997

8/853822

Neil F. Archer - Paducah KY

Arch Environmental Equipment, Inc. - Paducah KY

B65G 1508

198823

An input station for a wide continuous conveyor belt that moves in a conveyor run through an input station to a discharge location, around a head pulley, through a return run around a tail pulley, and back into the input station. At the input station the belt rides on a plurality of N conventional central support rollers each mounted between two inner stanchions. A plurality of at least 2N elongated, flat, stationary slider rails support each extreme outer edge of the conveyor belt through the input station. There are 2N troughing rolls, one at each end of each central roller, between the slider rails and the central rollers. 2N fixed inner stanchions support each central roller and one end of each of its troughing rollers. 2N fixed medial support members each support one end of a troughing roller. The slider rails are supported by the medial support members and by 2N outer stanchions.

5350053, Sep 27, 1994

Nov 22, 1991

7/796420

Neil Archer - Paducah KY

Arch Environmental Equipment, Inc. - Paducah KY

B65G 4719

198525

An input station for a belt conveyor of the kind including a continuous conveyor belt that moves in a conveyor run through an input station to a discharge location, around a head pulley, and in a return run around a tail pulley back to the input station and the conveyor run. At the input station the conventional center support rollers are retained but the support rollers along the sides of the belt are replaced by a plurality of elongated, stationary, flat support members that support the sides of the conveyor belt throughout the input station, improving the seal to input station skirtboards and materially reducing or eliminating input leakage while maintaining roller support and flexibility in the center of the belt, with minimal friction increase.