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US 11,230,438 B2Granted
Pouch conveyor belt
AssigneeContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH
InventorsCarsten Behrens, Olaf Kluth, Jens Schlomski
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AssigneeContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH
InventorsCarsten Behrens, Olaf Kluth, Jens Schlomski
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The present invention relates to a pouch conveyor belt with a conveyor belt body, preferably an elastomer conveyor belt body, which is designed to hold a conveyed material in the interior of the closed pouch conveyor belt. The pouch conveyor belt is characterized in that the conveyor belt body comprises at least one sensor element which is configured to detect at least the temperature of the conveyor belt body at the location of the sensor element.
A pouch conveyor belt comprising:
A pouch conveyor belt comprising:
A pouch conveyor belt comprising:
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Control devices, e.g. for safety, warning or fault-correcting: detecting dangerous physical condition of load carriers, e.g. for interrupting the…
Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other…:…
Made of rubber or plastics: with reinforcing layers, e.g. of fabric
Made of rubber or plastics: troughed or tubular; formed with joints facilitating troughing
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The present invention relates to a pouch conveyor belt and also to a pouch conveyor belt system with such a pouch conveyor belt.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective, diagrammatic, cross-sectional depiction of a known pouch conveyor belt system with a known pouch conveyor belt;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a sensor element according to the invention with a rigidity member of a pouch conveyor belt according to the invention;
FIG. 3 shows a perspective, diagrammatic, cross-sectional depiction of a pouch conveyor belt system according to the invention with the pouch conveyor belt according to the invention; and
In the field of conveying technology, a conveyor belt type called SICON® is known which is described for example in EP 0 286 637 B1. A SICON conveyor belt has two steel cables as tension members in the longitudinal direction, i.e. in the movement direction of the conveyor belt, each of which is vulcanized into the two side edge regions in the longitudinal direction. The edge regions may be known as conveyor belt edges which are guided one above the other in operation in the closed state of the SICON conveyor belt. The two edge regions have profiles around the steel cables which may be guided substantially jointly by corresponding rollers of a conveyor belt system, so that the conveyor belt can be held hanging downward. The function of these rollers is to guide the edge regions towards each other and press them against each other, so they may also be known as running rollers, guide rollers or tensioning rollers. In some cases, some or all rollers may also be driven in order to move the SICON conveyor belt in the conveying direction.
In this way, for closed transport of loose conveying material, a SICON conveyor belt may be folded up in the manner of a pouch, so that the two edge regions can be guided lying one above the other. The surface of the SICON conveyor belt lying in between thus hangs freely downward and carries the conveying material enclosed therein. A SICON conveyor belt may therefore also be described as a pouch conveyor belt or pouch conveyor. The SICON conveyor belt may be opened and closed at the input and output locations by corresponding guides.
In SICON conveyor belts, it is advantageous that the SICON conveyor belt or corresponding SICON conveyor belt system takes up little space and may therefore be used in constricted situations. This also applies to overcoming height differences in constricted situations. Normally, height differences with gradients of up to around 35° may be overcome by a SICON conveyor belt closed in the manner of a pouch, wherein the conveyor belt is compressed inside the pouch or bag and may thereby be held by force fit.