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Correct Conveyor Belt Tracking

Published Wednesday, April 01, 1998

Expensive repair or replacement of steel-cable belting on long load-out and field conveyors often is required when belts drift into their supporting steelwork. Clouds of smoke and sometimes hazardous damage can result. At the San Antonio quarry of Redland Stone Products, belt damage due to mis-tracking has ended. While the conditions that caused Redland's tracking problems haven't gone away, the problems themselves have been eliminated with a new return-belt positioner. It works more forcefully and immediately than conventional designs by funnelling the belt into a centered position, rather than steering it there. The quarry's railroad load-out conveyor runs ...

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