Talk:Conveyor belt

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General[edit]

what is the exactally detail of belt' plz send me,Bold text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.11.103.11 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 16 May 2004

Conveyor belts and belt conveyors are still mixed in this article. There should be a separate article on belt conveyors! See first paragraph of the article!

Difference[edit]

There is a difference between conveyor belt and belt conveyor. A conveyor belt is made of a tensile member (steel or fabric) and rubber or PVC covers. Several variations including special protection systems are there.A belt conveyor is the entire system consisting of the conveyor belt, idlers, pulleys, motors, gearboxes etc.

In Sahara it is the longest conveyor belt system, consisting of several belt conveyors. However, the longest single belt conveyor is crossing the Indian/Bangladeshi border. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Squink (talk • contribs) 14:26, 17 June 2005

Agree - we need to change the title!--Graham Proud 11:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good resources for conveyors include these: www.cisco-eagle.com (a commercial site with a ton of data and articles). Also, http://www.cisco-eagle.com/systems/conveyors/conveyor-articles/index.htm for articles and other conveyor stuff. Also, http://inventoryops.com/pics_conveyor.htm has some basic package conveyor breakdowns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.185.242.161 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 13 August 2005

Longest single flight[edit]

The longest single flight conveyor in the world is a Cable Belt rope driven conveyor installed at Worsley Aluminium in Western Australia. It is 30km long and is one of two conveyor belts making up a 50km system.

The longest single flight conveyor in India is at NALCO Damanjodi,situated in Koraput district which is 14.3 km long.

The Cable Belt conveyor was invented in Scotland by Mr Thompson for primarily high lift duty such as drift conveyors in coal mines. Various records are held in terms of length overland (Western Australia), tightest radii curve (Canada), longest underground system (UK), steepest angle of incline (Israel), longest downhill regenerative (Venezuala)Keefysher 22:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carryback[edit]

Conveyor belts when used in certain industries such as the Construction Aggregate and Coal-Mining may build up a substance on the belt called “carryback”. Carryback is fugitive material that sticks to the belt past the conveyor belt discharge point and then drops off along the conveyor’s return run.[1] This may lead to problems such as reduced operating efficiency, material buildup on rolling components leading to seizure of equipment, reduced work environment safety, and certain health hazards associated with fugitive airborne material. To prevent this, conveyor belt cleaner systems are employed in an attempt to make conveyor systems cleaner, safer, and more productive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1jtwidell (talk • contribs) 15:39, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Graphic[edit]

The animated graphic in the upper right titled Conveyor Belt is not a conveyor belt. It's a drive belt to transmit power to something. A conveyor belt is wide and various things (boxes, people, coal, etc.) ride on it as it moves along. foobar (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copy-Paste[edit]

I noticed that the article did not have the usual encyclopedic tone of Wikipedia, and added and later edited the cleanup tag, a google search revealed that much of the text is an exact match of articles such as this: https://terpco.com/conveyor-belts/ Something must be done to fix this and write a proper article without the "infomercial" tone that it currently has. 2601:546:C300:8FF0:21AE:7747:36E5:5E77 (talk) 14:52, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]