摘要 |
A conveyor system for moving flowable bulk material is equipped with a funnel that has a circular funnel inlet formed by a cylindrical wall section and an orthogonal funnel outlet formed by eight funnel walls connected at one end to the cylindrical wall section and forming at the opposite end the orthogonal funnel outlet. Four walls of the eight funnel walls are flat or plane and form funnel side or lateral walls. The remaining four walls have a curved cross-section and form funnel corner walls which interconnect the funnel lateral plane walls. The eight funnel walls are substantially longer in the axial direction than the cylindrical wall section. The corner walls and the lateral plane walls have approximately the same axial length (H ~ H'). The eight funnel walls cooperate in avoiding clogging of the bulk material as it flows through the funnel.
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