US PATENT SUBCLASS 198 / 526
.~.~ Moving flow control means coordinated with power-driven conveyor section

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198 /   HD   CONVEYORS: POWER-DRIVEN

523  DF  CONVEYOR SYSTEM HAVING A GRAVITY CONVEYOR SECTION {11}
525  DF  .~ With means to affect flow {7}
526.~.~ Moving flow control means coordinated with power-driven conveyor section {1}
527  DF  .~.~.~> Successive power-driven conveyor sections

DEFINITION

Classification: 198/526

(under subclass 525) Apparatus wherein the flow-affecting means comprises an element (or series of elements) which moves (e.g., orbitally, rotatably, etc.) through or within the path of flow from a gravity section to a power-driven section in timed relation with the movement of the power-driven section for the purpose of momentarily interfering with flow along that path at such times no one of the successive conveying elements (e.g., a bucket) of the power-driven section is properly positioned to receive the flow.

(1) Note. The means of this subclass (526) frequently is a series of traveling deflectors, each of which temporarily diverts or interrupts the flow, and which are more commonly referred to as "gap closers". While such deflectors may, per se, constitute a gravity conveyor section (i.e., a gravity flow path), classification herein does not take into account either the presence or the absence of such a conveying function.

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708, for a conveyor section of the bucket type wherein a bucket is provided with structure to close a gap between it and the next successive bucket.