What is a cable conveyor?
The cable conveyor is a transport belt system that uses a few endless steel cables to drive and support the belt and its load. This is, unlike conventional transport systems, where the belt itself is powered by a set of driving rollers and supported after its length on idle rollers. These cables support the belt for both transmission and return and separate from it only on the drive and ends of the conveyor's tail. The cable conveyor system offers wide advantages, including increased load, reduced complexity and stronger rotation radii.
Cable conveyors have several unique and beneficial departures from conventional design belt design. The first and perhaps the most important of them is the conveyor drive system. A few endless steel cables are used to support and drive the cable conveyor, one on both sides of the belt. The conventional system sees the belt itself to drive a number of rollers, which greatly burden the band's resulting problems of wear and equalization.
conventional conveyorY also require regular sets of idle rollers to support the belt and its load. Cables that control and support a cable conveyor require only two small guide pulleys in each set, unlike three or four required rollers normally. There are also less than half of the number of support sets necessary in any given length of the cable conveyor, resulting in lower installation and maintenance costs.
Due to the unique drive design and support design, this type of transport system uses a pre -confined belt that allows a larger load area of load. It also means that the belt is less susceptible to wandering or diverting laterally due to the load off -center or alignment, resulting in less spilling. In addition, the rope support system only requires the inclination of support pulleys through the curves and not the installation of the extraordinary. This also has an effect on reducing the deflection of the belt inducedthe resulting increase in the load through these curves.
The cable transport system is also able to monitor a much stricter curve radius than a congress conveyor with a horizontal turn for 400 meters or less. These cable systems are suitable for the length of the conveyor between more than half a mile (1 km) and 31 miles (50 km) and are easy to extend if necessary. They show excellent features of average average load with maximum load in an area of 6,000 metric tons per hour. Cable conveyors are also particularly suitable for steep slope installations. The combination of low cost, reduced maintenance and flexibility of the route makes the cable conveyor an attractive and cost -effective possibility of transporting material over long distances and in all terrain conditions.