Trough belt cleaning apparatus adapted for radial feeding
AssigneeSchlick Roto-Jet Maschinenbau GmbH
InventorHorst-Dieter Schlick
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Abstract
A trough belt cleaning apparatus adapted to be continuously fed with articles in radial direction, particularly a blasting system, wherein the articles to be cleaned are placed onto a belt and discharged from the latter when the cleaning operation has been performed wherein the belt defines, as seen in the direction of belt travel, first a receiving or collecting trough and a subsequent downstream processing trough with the processing trough being defined or bounded on the upstream and downstream sides, as seen in belt travelling direction by guide pulleys acting to deflect the belt during the processing operation, and wherein the pulleys are adapted to be raised and lowered while the belt is travelling.
Claims9
A trough belt cleaning apparatus adapted to be continuously fed with articles in radial direction, particularly a blasting system, wherein the articles to be cleaned are placed onto a belt and discharged from the latter when the cleaning operation has been performed, characterized in that said belt (1) defines, as seen in the direction of belt travel, first a receiving or collecting trough (2) and a subsequent, downstream processing trough (3), with said processing trough (3) being defined or bounded on the upstream and downstream sides, as seen in belt travelling direction, by guide pulleys (4, 5) acting to deflect said belt (1) during the processing operation, and that said pulleys (4, 5) are adapted to be raised and lowered while said belt is travelling.
A method of cleaning articles with a trough belt cleaning apparatus adapted to receive continuously fed articles in radial direction, comprising the steps of:
- placing the articles to be cleaned onto a belt, said belt defining as seen in the direction of belt travel first a receiving or collecting trough collecting the supplied workpieces within the collecting trough, while simultaneously blast-finishing workpieces in a subsequent downstream processing trough;
- said processing trough being defined or bounded on the upstream and downstream sides, as seen in belt travelling direction, by guide pulleys acting to deflect said belt during the processing operation, transferring the collected workpieces from the collecting trough into the processing trough, said pulleys (4, 5) are adapted to be raised and lowered while said belt is travelling, discharging the cleaned workpieces.
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