No. 211 | 2d Cir. | Apr 11, 1916
Both the patents in suit relate to certain details of belt conveyer devices. Apparatus of this kind transports upon an endless belt (sometimes of great length) material such as coal or ore that may be thrown upon it at any convenient point. Such belts may be flat or curved, according to (lie configuration of the carrying or idler pulleys upon which they run.
Claim 5 of 571,604
Claims 3 and 4 of this patent
Claims 1, 2, and 5
The decree below is affirmed, with costs.'
This claim is as follows: “The supporting pulleys L, K, L, tho hollow bearings F therefor, and the horizontal and turn-up hollow shafts secured in the said bearings, and the oil devices mounted on the ends of the turn-up shafts, substantially as set forth.”
Claim 3 is as follows: “An idler pulley structure for belt conveyers, having two main or inner brackets and a pulley supported between them, means for adjusting each one of the said main or inner brackets upon a common support for the two, and two auxiliary or side brackets each of which is secured to and is adjustable with one of the main or inner brackets, and pulleys supported between the main or inner brackets and the auxiliary or side brackets.”
Claim 1 is as follows: “An idler pulley structure for belt conveyers having two inner brackets, a pulley supported between them, auxiliary or side brackets each forming an extension of and removably mounted or secured to one of said inner brackets, pulleys supported between the inner and the auxiliary or side brackets, and means for securing the said brackets to a suitable support therefor, and inclined shafts mounted in and extending outward from the auxiliary or side brackets with pulleys mounted thereon.”