Abstract:
Apparatus and method for refurbishing damaged belting. The apparatus includes a frame with a conveyor system. A mechanism is attached to the frame for removing a desired amount of the belting surface as the belting moves relative to the frame on the conveyor system.
Abstract:
A belting having synthetic polymeric weft yarns that are associated with warp yarns of a natural fiber, is described. The belting can be woven to the broadest width allowable by a loom and then cut to a desired width. The cutting device is heated to simultaneously melt the several weft yarns which upon cooling fuse to form a sealed lateral edge that prevents the belting from fraying and unraveling at the fused edge during use. The broad cloth can also be cut to size and then the severed lateral edges is melted using a fusing device.
Abstract:
An apparatus for cutting a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is clamped against a cutting surface on the base of the apparatus by a pair of parallel clamping bars. A lever arm is pivoted to, and is axially slidable on, a shaft disposed parallel to the clamping bars and the lever arm carries a cutting head. A pair of blades are mounted in an acute angle relation on the cutting head, and as the lever arm is manually pivoted downwardly, the blades cut a pair of slits in the belt. The lever arm is then pivoted up and advanced axially along the shaft and the cutting action is repeated to thereby cut a plurality of V-shaped fingers in the belt, which can be interdigitated with fingers of a second belt end and subsequently bonded together to provide an endless spliced belt.
Abstract:
Fabricating method for an elongated woven-wire belt for direct-contact dynamic-frictional-drive along an inner perimeter lateral edge portion when the belt is moving in a path which is curved in a lateral direction with respect to its lengthwise direction. A curved path structure for support of such belt is disclosed along with methods of assembly and operation of curved path support structures. Lengthwise collection and extension uniformly across the width of the woven-wire belt is provided, along with selection of direction of movement providing for reversing direction of movement without requiring modification of the belt structure or curved path support structure. Provision is made for selectively controlling rates of movement of the woven-wire belt in a curved path support structure and for controlling rate of movement of the belt when exterior to a multi-layer curved-path tower structure.
Abstract:
Apparatus for transporting discrete objects or bulk goods from a first station at a first level to a second station at a second level, which may but need not be above or below the first level, has an endless belt conveyor which is trained about pulleys at the two stations and has an upper reach which is braced from below by a table and defines a straight horizontal or a hilly path for the commodities. The marginal portions of the belt, at least in the region of the upper reach, are guided by pairs of idler rollers whose axes are inclined relative to each other. The rollers are mounted in bearing units which, in turn, are adjustably coupled to elongated bases of a frame.
Abstract:
A conveyor belt for pipe conveyors is indicated which includes overlapping of the conveyor belt at the edges when the belt pipe is formed and which consists of rubber or rubber-like plastic material and a plurality of steel ropes, all being alike, embedded therein as tension carriers and extending in longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt. They all have the same mutual spacing in transverse direction of the conveyor belt and are especially rich in elongation. At the runing side of the conveyor belt a continuous, transversely stiff insert is provided in addition, it extends across the full width of the conveyor belt and comprises steel cords oriented in transverse direction. Another transversely stiff, textile insert is provided in addition at the supporting side of the conveyor belt, yet it is not located in the two edge regions of the conveyor belt which overlap when the belt pipe is formed.
Abstract:
A double helix is formed from two partial helices each having the same winding direction and each having an oval cross-section with nearly straight upper and lower winding legs. The facing winding arcs of the two partial helices encircle each other. The upper winding legs of the partial helices extend at a different angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the partial helices than the lower winding legs of the respective partial helix. The upper winding legs of one partial helix extend at the same angle with respect to the longitudinal axis as the lower winding legs of the other partial helix and vice versa.
Abstract:
A conveyor belt that is comprised of a body of elastomeric material with a reinforcing means disposed within the body to provide the belt with suitable transverse stiffness while maintaining longitudinal flexibility. The body comprises a core and top and bottom cover layers on opposed sides of the core. The reinforcement comprises a plurality of stiff elongated reinforcing elements incorporated in the body which extend transversely across the belt and which terminate inwardly of the longitudinal ends thereof. The reinforcing elements are spaced apart along the belt and include an arrangement for resisting transverse shrinkage of the elastomeric body.
Abstract:
A conveyor having a roller belt closed in the circumferential direction having overlapping belt edges and an outer circumference and a plurality of belt support rollers guiding the roller belt along a conveying path, each support roller having a running face in contact with the outer circumference of the belt, each support roller defining an overlap with the next following support roller in the circumferential direction so that an imaginary axial extension of its running face intersects the running face of the next following support roller. Each overlap being oriented in the same direction so that in the event the belt rotates in the direction of the circumference, the outer edge of the belt in the overlap region contacts the running face instead of touching the edge of the following support roller.
Abstract:
A conveyor assembly for enabling removal of an endless belt trained around rollers fixed to axles has two rotatable plates connect to a conveyor frame having two parallel stationary plates. A first axle affixed with a roller is connected to the stationary plates, and a second axle affixed with a roller is connected to the rotatable plates which have slots for receiving the second axle. Belt tension adjusting means are provided which are integral to the rotatable plates and are connected to the second axle. The rotatable plates are connected to the stationary plates, the rotatable plates being connected to the stationary plates at an offset position with respect to a straight line extending between the first and second axles when the rotatable plates and stationary plates are in rectilinear relationship, so that the distance between the axles is at a maximum when a straight line extending between the axles also passes through a rotation center of the plates when the plates are rotated out of rectilinear relationship.