Radiographic product inspection system with reject bin

A system for inspecting inspection objects using radiation, comprising:

• a support structure;
• an enclosure cabinet, comprising:
• an infeed opening;
• and
• an outfeed opening;
• an interior of the enclosure cabinet subdivided into an infeed compartment, an inspection compartment and an outfeed compartment;
• a conveyor bed that supports rollers and a tensioning mechanism;
• a conveyor belt that runs in a closed loop around the rollers while being held under tensioning by the tensioning mechanism, defining a conveyor belt loop that is divided into a transport section that transports the inspection objects along a transport path through the infeed compartment, the inspection compartment, and the outfeed compartment and a return section that runs below the transport section from the outfeed opening back to the infeed opening, wherein, to allow access for cleaning, servicing and exchanging the conveyor belt, the enclosure cabinet has at least one conveyor access opening with a conveyor access door;
• a reject bin, configured as an expanded portion of the outfeed compartment that protrudes sideways from the enclosure cabinet laterally to one side of the conveyor belt, the reject bin being divided into a reject bin top and a reject bin bottom which are separated along a separation gap from each other, the separation gap being arranged at the level of the transport section of the conveyor belt loop to run uninterrupted from the outfeed opening to the conveyor access opening, which, in turn, runs uninterrupted into the infeed opening so that, after the conveyor access door has been opened and the tensioning mechanism has been released, the conveyor belt can be taken out of the enclosure cabinet by sliding the transport section of the conveyor belt loop out to the front through the separation gap and the conveyor access opening, and by slipping the return section of the conveyor belt loop around the reject bin bottom;
• and
• a rejection mechanism, arranged in the outfeed compartment, to move inspection objects that are rejected from the conveyor belt into the reject bin;
• wherein the enclosure cabinet and the conveyor bed are connected to and supported by the support structure on a rear side thereof which is laterally to one side of the conveyor belt, while the enclosure cabinet and the conveyor bed are clear of the support structure on a front side thereof, which is on the opposite side of the conveyor belt and the reject bin and the conveyor access opening are both arranged on the front side.