Abstract: A conveyor for bulk materials comprising first and second housings, a pair of conduits interconnecting the housings to provide a circuitous path, one of the housings and the conduits having means for feeding material therein, one of the housings and the conduits having means for discharging material therefrom, a sprocket mounted in each of the housings, means for driving one of the sprockets, and a rope assembly including a nylon-coated metallic wire rope disposed in the housings and the conduits, along the circuitous path, and reeved around the sprockets, metallic end ferrules press-fit onto and welded to opposing, exposed end portions of the rope, a plurality of intermediate metallic ferrules press-fit onto the nylon coating of the rope at spaced intervals between the end ferrules, and a plurality of disc assemblies mounted on the rope and received within spaced recesses provided on the peripheries of the sprockets, each of the disc assemblies inlcuding a single boss and a single disc mounted on the rope an