Conveyors in Industry
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Conveyor(s) of the Month
April 2008
Heavy-duty hopper-loading conveyor
The conveyor runs from a pit in the ground, making it easier for the tractor units to load waste.
A tractor about to load the conveyor pit.
Note the emergency stop button/pull cord running up the right-hand edge of the unit.
Sortation conveyor. Staff stand to the left and remove unwanted material.
Transfer from the sortation conveyor to the hopper-feeding incline conveyor.
Side view of the incline conveyor, also showing the bailing machine.
Waste and Recycling
Governments and councils are under increasing pressure to grade and recycle waste, with a corresponding increase in the need for materials handling machinery. Central Conveyors installed two such conveyor systems in March alone !
Borough Council
The first of these was for Chelmsford borough council, and involved a refinement to their existing waste sortation system. The requirement was relatively simple: to eliminate the need for manned tractor units to feed waste directly into the input hopper of their sortation line. The solution was a simple - but robust - chain-driven conveyor terminating in a loading pit at the lower end, and the sortation line input hopper at the upper.
The pit allows tractor operators to roughly pile waste at the base of the conveyor without the need for finesse, significantly reducing the load time and improving site safety.
As the conveyor pit is exposed to the elements, we also fitted a 'bilge pump' to prevent any build-up of water. (You can just see the exist pipe coming out of the right-hand side of the pit)
The conveyor features horizontal 'flights' running across the width of the belt (the yellow bars in this picture) to help ensure that waste is carried up the gradient, and doesn't 'roll' back down again. Notice the emergency stop button on the lower right of the picture: this is connected to a pull-cord that runs up the right-hand edge of the machine. If anyone was unfortunate enough to fall into the conveyor pit, then they could use this to stop the machine before they are carried up to the top.
Private waste recycling plant
This was a slightly larger job for a private plant in Derbyshire. The requirement was for a long sortation conveyor; staff stand to the left-side of this unit to remove innapropriate materials from the belt.
At the end, the materials are disgorged onto an incline chain conveyor with horizontal flights. This takes the waste materials up to the input hopper of the compressor/bailing machine.
The incline conveyor is functionaly similar to the Chelmsford conveyor featured above. It is slighly smaller, however.
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Waste Recycling conveyor systems