MONITORING ORE SCREENING PROCESSES

• US 20160332199A1
• Filed: 12/15/2014
• Published: 11/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scheneck Process Australia Pty Ltd
• Original Assignee: Schenck Process Australia Pty Ltd. (Schenck Process Holding GmbH)
• Inventors: Schuetz, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 9,962,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 1/4609 constructional details of screening surfaces or meshes
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 13/18 Control
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A system for monitoring screening facilities which includes screening panels and components of the screen deck incorporating wirelessly readable identification tags; a computer database containing information relating to the screen deck components and their associated tags; a wireless tag detection station for regularly reading the conveyed material to detect tags; a computer program for matching the detected information with said data base and means for communicating a warning that a screen deck component has been dislodged.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring screen deck components in a screening installation which includes a screen deck and a conveyor for screened material below said screen deck which includes the steps of

a) incorporating wirelessly readable identification tags into components of the screen deck

b) installing a wireless tag detection station adjacent or around said conveyor

c) regularly reading the conveyed material to detect tags on dislodged component

d) communicating a warning that a screen deck component has been dislodged.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 which includes maintaining a computer database in relation to the screen deck components and their associated tags and as part of step c), matching the detected information with said data base.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 in which tag detection and warning communication occur in real time.

4. A system for monitoring screening facilities which includes

a) screening panels and components of the screen deck incorporating wirelessly readable identification tags

b) a wireless tag detection station for regularly reading the conveyed material to detect tags

c) means for communicating a warning that a screen deck component has been dislodged.

5. A system as claimed in claim 4 which includes a computer database in relation to the screen deck components and their associated tags and a computer program for matching the detected information with said data base.

6. A system as claimed in claim 5 in which tag detection and warning communication occur in real time.