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Conveyor belt specification determining method

  • US 10,656,055 B2
  • Filed: 03/28/2016
  • Issued: 05/19/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A conveyor belt specification determination method, comprising:

  • categorizing, into a plurality of categories, a severity of use conditions of a conveyor belt, using a horizontal energy and a vertical energy as indices, the horizontal energy and vertical energy being received by the conveyor belt as a result of objects to be conveyed being fed onto and loaded on an upper cover rubber of the conveyor belt and conveyed;

    creating a database in which a permissible range of each of prescribed characteristics is set for each of the categories, the prescribed characteristics including at least wear resistance and cut resistance of the upper cover rubber;

    setting a representative rubber physical property of the upper cover rubber that affects each of the prescribed characteristics;

    ascertaining a degree of influence of the representative rubber physical property that is set on the prescribed characteristics;

    when determining a specification of the conveyor belt, identifying the category of severity from the use conditions of the conveyor belt on a basis of the database;

    identifying an appropriate range of the representative rubber physical property for which the prescribed characteristics are in the permissible range in the category that is identified; and

    selecting a rubber type, for which the representative rubber physical property is in the appropriate range that is identified, as the upper cover rubber.

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