Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Patent
1998-12-30
2000-09-12
Bidwell, James R.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
B65G 1534
Patent
active
061164119
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The invention relates to a conveyor belt comprising a load-carrying side and a backing side made from elastomer material, i.e., rubber or rubber-like material, as well as a traction support area made from steel cables or steel cords located between the load-carrying side and the backing side.
The energy consumption of belt conveyor installations can be influenced by the design of the conveyor belt. This is very important especially in installations where energy carriers are recovered and large streams of material are transported over large distances, so that such belt carriers are required to have high driving capacities. A number of tests have been carried out in the past for the purpose of reducing the kinetic resistance of belt carrier installations. Reference is made in this regard particularly to the following literature: Consumption of Conveyor belts--Trade Publication "Braunkohle", 9/93 the Energy Consumption of Conveyor Installations--Trade Conference of the German Rubber Association ("DKG") on 10-01-1992 in Fulda.
The kinetic resistance is determined by both the type of support rollers selected and their constellation (i.e., shape of the trough of the belt) and the conveyor belt as such.
Now, the problem against the background of the state of the art cited above is to reduce the loss of inner energy (hysteresis) of the conveyor belt running up on the load-carrying roller and acting on the latter, so that the damping energy is reduced there. Furthermore, an optimum is to be obtained with respect to the resetting force or energy of the conveyor belt as it travels across the load-carrying rollers.
Now, according to the invention, the solution to said problem consists in that resilience of at least 70%, and an intermediate layer between the traction support area and the wearing coat, whereby a reflector which is steel wire mesh consisting of warp and weft wires, is present within the intermediate layer (variation A); or at least 70% as well, whereby a reflector, which is a steel wire mesh consisting of wrap and weft wires is arranged within the wearing coat but no intermediate layer is present between the traction support area and the wearing coat variation B.
The value of rebound resilience specified above relates to room temperature with either variation.
The wearing coat and the intermediate layer each usefully are 1-layer constructions, whereby particularly the wearing coat according to variation A has a greater thickness than the intermediate layer.
Concerning the reflector as defined by the invention, which in context with the problem here on hand does not have the function of a slit protection (DE-B-24 25 465; U.S. Pat. No. 2,793,150), the following parameters usefully apply:
The warp and weft wires each have about the same high tensile strength, in particular of up to 300 N/mm.sup.2. Furthermore, the warp and weft wires exhibit about the same elongation property. The steel wire mesh has a mesh aperture of up to 2 mm maximum, whereby the warp and weft wires have a diameter of up to 1.2 mm at the most. Furthermore, the warp and weft wires are advantageously galvanized, which increases the rubber friendliness (i.e., the adhesive capacity versus the elastomeric material).
The reflector is arranged in direct proximity to the traction support area. It is advantageous in connection with this constellation if the type of weave of the steel wire mesh described above is a twill weave or calico weave.
The width of the reflector takes up a maximum of 80%, in particular a maximum of 75% of the total width of the conveyor belt, with substantially an equal spacing from the outer edges.
The reflector extends over the total length of the conveyor belt.
The invention is now explained in greater detail in the following with the help of exemplified embodiments and by reference to schematic cross sectional representations.
In the drawing,
FIG. 1 shows the backing side according to variation A.
FIG. 2 shows the backing side according to variation B.
The following list of reference numerals applies in c
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Grosskreuz Gernot
Reiner Margit
Bidwell James R.
Phoenix Aktiengesellschaft
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