Conveyor belts are mainly used in daily life to transport goods and are applied in many industries. Conveyor belts have also been widely used inside cars, so what are the classifications of conveyor belts?
Conveyor belt classification
Conveyor belts are generally classified based on the presence or absence of traction components.
1. There are various types of conveyor belt equipment with traction components, mainly including belt conveyors, plate conveyors, trolley conveyors, escalators, moving walkways, scraper conveyors, buried scraper conveyors, bucket conveyors, bucket elevators, suspended conveyors, and overhead cableways.
2. Common conveyor belt equipment without traction components include roller rotating motion and screw conveyor.
A conveyor belt refers to a belt fabric assembled on a conveyor machine for conveying objects. Usually divided into cotton conveyor belts, rubber conveyor belts, and plastic conveyor belts. Cotton conveyor belts are generally made of 4-layer plain weave fabric. Later, influenced by technological advancements in mechanical manufacturing, electrical machinery, chemical and metallurgical industries, conveyor belts continued to improve and gradually evolved from completing internal transmission in workshops to completing material handling within enterprises, between enterprises, and even between cities, becoming an indispensable component of the mechanization and automation of material handling systems.
Conveyor Belt Classification - Features
1. Composition and characteristics of conveyor belt equipment with traction components
Conveyor belts with traction components generally include traction components, load-bearing components, driving devices, tensioning devices, directional devices, and supporting components. The traction component is used to transmit traction force, and can use conveyor belts, traction chains, or steel wire ropes; The load-bearing components are used to hold materials, such as hoppers, brackets, or slings; The driving device provides power to the conveyor, usually consisting of an electric motor, a reducer, and a brake (stop); There are generally two types of tensioning devices, screw type and heavy hammer type, which can maintain a certain tension and sag of the traction components to ensure the normal operation of the conveyor belt; Support components are used to support traction components or load-bearing components, and can use rollers, rollers, etc.
The structural characteristics of conveyor belt equipment with traction components are: the transported materials are installed in the load-bearing components connected to the traction components, or directly installed on the traction components (such as conveyor belts), and the traction components are connected to each drum or sprocket head and tail, forming a closed loop that includes loaded branches for transporting materials and unloaded branches for not transporting materials. The continuous movement of the traction components is used to transport materials.
2. Composition and characteristics of conveyor belt equipment without traction components
The structural composition of conveyor belt equipment without traction components varies, and the working components used to transport materials also vary.
Their structural characteristics are: utilizing the rotational or reciprocating motion of working components, or utilizing the flow of media in pipelines to transport materials forward. For example, the working component of a roller conveyor is a series of rollers that rotate to transport materials; The working component of the screw conveyor is the screw, which rotates in the material groove to push the material along the groove; The working component of a vibrating conveyor is a material trough, which moves back and forth to transport materials placed within it.
