Tag: Conveyors and belting solutions

THERE are a number of advantages to using air supported conveyor systems over a conventional roller conveyor, and many of these are derived from the low belt friction and smooth movement of product inherent in air-supported belt design. Aerobelt Australia is an Australian-owned business, and its engineers have extensive experience on all types of Aerobelt design, installation and maintenance. They have extensive backgrounds in design, mining and industrial engineering. Aerobelt mechanical engineer Simon Kutassy says that air-supported conveyors are the only product his company makes, and this gives them the advantage of a fully dedicated team of experts working on customisable designs for clients. “We’re a one product company, its all we do,” he said. Aerobelt conveyors can transport product…

AN idea by Leverlink founder Richard Sharp early in 1991 led to the production of the first “dynamic” impact bed for troughed conveyor belts in Australia, forming the foundation for Leverlink’s current leading-edge technology. Mr Sharp had the idea to develop a better and more reliable product; one that would dissipate kinetic energy and provide the benefits of long service life, as well as assisting in reducing maintenance costs in terms of consumables and labour. The design for the dynamic impact bed – using rubber torsion springs as suspension – was radically different from the static impact beds that were dominating the Australian marketplace at the time. Load zones and transfer points Most belt damage occurs at conveyor load zones…

AS part of a major multinational mining company’s new project, bulk material handling specialist Bulknet was selected to design and manufacture a unique screw feeder. Positioned under a 150-tonne storage hopper, the screw feeder supplies nickel sulphate crystals to a bagging system below. The system needed to start under a full load from the hopper through a four-metre-long outlet. This would allow the client to fill and store material in the hopper for when planned maintenance was undertaken upstream. The hopper’s significant capacity and the weight of the material would place the screw feeder under extreme pressures. Special consideration was necessary in the design phase to ensure it was robust enough to handle the task. When the screw rotates, it…