Floating Conveyer Belt (Patent No: 650275)

Inventor: Moar, John (Jack)

Location: Edmonton

Comments: engineer; RCAF; Western Canadian Airways 1929; bush pilot; WWII worked for Aircraft Repair Ltd.; worked in oil industry 1950s; amphibious trailer prototype tested on North Saskatchewan River and on Cooking Lake; converted from land to water use in under 15 minutes; produced by Catarine Manufacturing Company floating conveyor belt system developed for Vollan Construction; see Edmonton Journal, April 2, 1962; November 29, 1962; October 25, 1972

Description:

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:


(1) In a floating conveyor, the combination of a liquid containing conduit, a buoyant belt floating on the liquid in said conduit, said belt. including a pair of transversely spaced parallel hollow and gas-filled longitudinal members and a substantially flat base member having longitudinal edges thereof connected to the underside of said longitudinal members whereby to provide a trough for material to be conveyed, and means for maintaining said belt spaced from the walls of said conduit, said means comprising a set of cross bars extending transversely of and secured at longitudinally spaced points to said belt, and rollers rotatably mounted at the ends of said cross bars and engaging the walls of said conduit.




FETHERSTONHAUGH & KENT


Patent Attorneys of the Applicant