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TYPES OF BELT CONVEYORS

According to position : (a) Stationary Belt Conveyors. (b) Mobile Belt Conveyors. (c) Portable Belt Conveyors. According to Path of Belt Conveyor : (a) Horizontal Belt Conveyors. (b) Inclined Belt Conveyors. (c) Mixed type Belt Conveyors. According to their Design and Application : (a) General purpose conveyors. (b) Special purpose conveyors for ores, conveyor for carrying food. (c) Underground conveyors. (d) Special purpose conveyors such as oil resisting, heat resisting, submerged. (e) Above water Belt Conveyors. (f) Air supported Belt Conveyors.

(a) The conveyors may be troughed and flat, may be inclined upward or downward with or without curvature in vertical plane. Troughed belt conveyor is that in which the belt forms a trough on the carrying side while running over idler rolls which are either in set of 5-rolls, 3-rolls or 2-rolls. Flat belt conveyor is that in which the belt runs flat on the carrying side over straight roller type idler or a set of idlers. (b) The fix or portable belt conveyors arc used according to the requirements of the production process.

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