Flexible Steel Lacing Company

Brett E Devries

Daniel J Kuiper

David Adrian Moelker

Richard W Gilman

Gregory Lee Westphall

Daniel W Dailey

John Dale Culbertson

Marcus L Krosschell

A system and apparatus are provided for monitoring one or more characteristics of a scraper blade of a belt cleaner system. The system and apparatus may be configured to monitor the amount of wear of the scraper blade. The system and apparatus may include a self-contained wear monitoring unit which includes one or more sensors for detecting scraper blade wear. The sensor may be a wear sensor including one or more conductive wear indicators on a circuit board, wherein the circuit board is positioned and adapted to be worn down along with the scraper blade due to abrasion with the conveyor belt, such that portions of the conductive wear indicator disposed on the circuit board will also be worn away as the scraper blade is worn down. The wear monitoring unit may be configured to be retrofit to an existing scraper blade without any modification to the scraper blade.

Conveyor belt cleaner blade wear monitoring system

A system and apparatus are provided for monitoring a conveyor system. The system and apparatus may include one or more sensors or sensor modules associated with a conveyor belt. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a sensor connected to at least one of first and second plate members that are configured to be connected to one another on opposite surfaces of the conveyor belt. The sensor may be at least partially received in a recess formed in the conveyor belt such that the sensor resides in a protected pocket formed by at least one of the plate members and the recess in the conveyor belt. The system is configured to monitor ancillary devices of a conveyor system, such as a belt splice. The system may maintain a digital twin of an ancillary device so that a condition of the ancillary device may be monitored remotely.

Monitoring system for conveyor belt ancillary devices

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Comstock Park, MI, United States of America

Brett E Devries