Conveyor with heat transfer arrangement

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A conveyor for moving hot or cold material along a trough receiving the material. One or more heat transfer fluid flow tubes extend over the outer surface of a trough liner wall to indirectly cause cooling or heating of the liner wall. Fins or angled thin metal strips conductively interconnect the tube or tubes and the liner wall. A series of wear plates are clamped to a pushing side of a helical tube of an auger type conveyor which tube can also , receive a flow of heat transfer fluid. A mass of conductive beads can alternatively be used to transfer heat into or from the heat transfer fluid.