Merge Conveyor
Merge Conveyor
(OP)
I am in the process of designing a merge conveyor.
It is a plyable conveyor belt. I have found some design guidelines, but not much. The conveyor has a 30 degree merge nose. It is 30 degrees from a line perpindicular to the belt flow. I am wondering if anybody has any tips or tricks in a conveyor of this type. This type of conveyor may also be known as an induction conveyor. It seems like tracking may be very hard to accomplish.
Thank-you
It is a plyable conveyor belt. I have found some design guidelines, but not much. The conveyor has a 30 degree merge nose. It is 30 degrees from a line perpindicular to the belt flow. I am wondering if anybody has any tips or tricks in a conveyor of this type. This type of conveyor may also be known as an induction conveyor. It seems like tracking may be very hard to accomplish.
Thank-you





RE: Merge Conveyor
It might help to know what material you are handling. Is it a solid package? Is it a bulk material? This would be very helpful in getting the best feedback. Here are some thoughts. If it is a solid package, does it need to be a belt for the last approach to the merge point? How about rollers(powered or unpowered)? Also with a merge point of solid packages you need to consider a means of stoping the flow from one direction to prevent bottlenecking of items.
From the phasing of your question, I doubt you are conveying bulk material. If you are, you don't want to merge using a flat belt conveyor on the same plane. You will have loss of material at the gap between the main conveyor and the spur.
Regards,
Rich...
Richard Nornhold, PE
nornrich@redrose.net
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