Show I 1 lr A TRAVELING BELT CONVEYOR w A traveling belt conveyor is a device that will appeal to one at once as po possessing superior features for conveying purposes especially in connection with reduction works and other metallurgical processes being a simple appliance which will without the aid of tripping contrivances discharge its load at any desired point along the line the illustration herewith shows such a conveyor as made by the jeffrey manufacture ift ing company it consisting of their well known century type of rubber belt with rolls the whole affair together with the electric motor that drives it being mounted on truck wheels which run on tracks over the line of discharge this conveyor as shown was installed in a cyanide mill for the reduction of gold ores and delivers the crushed material to a line of vats depositing it anywhere along the line according to the tion in which the conveyer is placed the conveyer is supplied with ore at a point near the center of the line of 0 1 vats and is but one half as long 1 ong as a stationary conveyer would be with a tripping carriage as it carries either to the right or to the left the motor being a reversible one to admit of the change in some cases where the te conveyor is a long and heavy one ond the truck is made self propelling being driven along the desired location by the same motor that drives the belt connection with the motor is provided by a flexible cable or an ordinary trolley line in many reduction works the feature b of f laborsaving labor saving devices often represents much of the profit prof it made and the question of the best methods of economic handling has to be se seriously considered these problems have had much to do with the present perfection to which conveying machinery has risen |