Uses and Applications of Conveyor System Belts
February 15th, 2016
A handful of mechanisms earned paradigm-shifting places of prominence as the industrial revolution took flight. Among them, conveyor system belts provided the motive power for new production lines, pushing assembling automobiles and mass produced products through dirty factories. Quickly recognized as an invaluable aid for shifting anything to anywhere, canvas and leather bands found their way into mines and quarries as linear workhorses. Their duty was to shift ore, granite and minerals to empty trucks and then on to active processing machinery.
History tells the tale of conveyor system belts from an industrial perspective because manual labour could no longer keep up with modern production environments. Shaky wooden pulleys used smoky diesel motors to shift large volumes of coal from subterranean seams to the surface. Similarly, just realized assembly lines kept workers stationary while parts moved forward to be locked together until a final product was ready for shipment. But such functions only represented a fraction of the equipment’s true potential. Today, modern conveyor belts reject the old canvas and leather form and clothe the drums with long belts made of strong engineering polymers. The rubberized belts move people in airport terminals and act as a snappy little conveyance mechanism for consumer shoppers in large markets, places that resemble the old production lines due to the sheer volume of people lining up for attention.
The shipping of merchandise exiting bulk product lines uses amalgamated metal rollers and conveyor system belts to reduce foot traffic and maximize productivity. Similarly, airport baggage areas use kilometres of belts to faithfully deliver luggage to circular carousels, assemblies that are, again, formed from long powered belts. Of course, the industrial-grade production line is still in evidence everywhere. Steel-belted models or rubber variants with metal-laced reinforcement carry abrasive materials. Power stations use this format, thus automating the delivery of coal. The fossil fuel travels by rail, but it’s deposited in a special inclined chute and dispatched to a crusher stage, at which point the powder feeds the furnace, the boiler heats water, and superheated steam drives a turbine.
Now deservedly entrenched as a crucial link in practically every commodity transportation line, even that of people, the linear action of this powerful mechanism is unabashedly associated with large scale work, but the belt system is also credited with a purposeful range of capabilities that target reduced applications. Pharmaceutical belts embrace metal belts, as do food and agricultural processing lines, places where efficient conveyance is equated with fast sorting and screening.
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