Material handling conveyors, belt conveyors

Material handling conveyors are utilized all through the plant. They're of diverse sizes, inclines, declines, manage distinct amounts and sizes of material, and run at diverse speeds. The conveyor systems employed within the Ormeau plant use exactly the same components.

Conveyor belts

Material Handling Conveyor

The conveyor belts applied within the Ormeau plant are substantial rubber bands stretched in between two pulleys, 1 called the head drum which is exactly where the conveyor discharges is, plus the other becoming the tail drum, which is where the loading happens. They travel at a consistent speed.

The belt is supported among the head and tail drums by the use of trough rollers. The trough rollers are a system of 3 rollers, 1 inside the middle in the belt that is flat and the side 2 which are set up an angle of 30 degrees.

This angle is used to improve the capacity of the belt. The bottom with the conveyor belt, or the return side, is supported with return rollers which are flat. Drive towards the conveyor is provided in the head in the conveyor by way of an electric motor coupled through the use of v belts to a speed reduction gear box. The size of the electric motor as well as the ratio from the gearbox differ based on weight carried along with the operating angle from the conveyor.

Tension is supplied towards the conveyor belt by way of mechanical implies. Threaded rods attached towards the tail drum, which when adjusted apply tension to the belt. This system is also made use of to align the belt, and permit it to run straight between the trough rollers.

Ancillary components are utilised to clean the belt like: belt scrappers, and tail pulley plow scrappers. Belt scrappers, scrap the outside of the belt and are positioned so that the scrapings go using the flow of material. Pulley plow scrappers are located at the tail drum, on the inside from the belt, with a function to scrap material from the belt and direct it off the edges from the belt to ensure that it will not run in among the tail pulley and also the belt and potentially lead to damage.

MATERIAL HANDLING CONVEYOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS

Like vibrating screens you can find no protection systems for the conveyors which will switch the electric motor off within the event of a failure, but every from the conveyors are connected to a sequence interlock switch. Refer: Vibrating screens protection systems for details from the sequence interlock.

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