Type of chips, swarf or scrap / correct conveyor design
How important is to correctly choose a type of conveyor?
It is very important that you consider the purpose your conveyor will serve, or what type of material you need to transport. For easy orientation, we prepared our recommendations, displayed in the following table, for you. Depending on the type of the transported material, chips, cuttings, or scraps from your production, you can choose from three basic types of conveyors (hinged steel belt conveyor, scraper [drag flight] conveyor, or magnetic conveyor). Choose from many options (additional accessories) listed directly by the individual conveyor types.
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Chips from standard, heat—treated and hardened steel and from special alloys (1—9)
For chips, swarf or scrap and waste from hardened or heat–treated materials, always ask for the tracks and bottom of the conveyor to be made of highly wear–resistant material (we are using HARDOX). This investment will pay back greatly by the maximum extension of the life of your conveyors.
| 1. Broken and short chips | 2. Broken and short chips | 3. Broken and short chips | ||
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| Material: standard steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors or scraper conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: standard steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors or scraper conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: standard steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors or scraper conveyors. Request For Quotation. | ||
| 4. Mixture of short and long chips | 5. Mixture of short and long chips | 6. Long chips | ||
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| Material: standard steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: standard steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | |||
| 7. Long stringy chips | 8. Large tough chips | 9. Large tough chips | ||
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| Material: standard, heat-treated steel. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: heat-treated, hardened steel, special alloys. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: heat-treated, hardened steel, special alloys. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. |
Chips from aluminum, from light and colored metals and from plastics (10—12)
If you are getting small, light chips, they have the tendency to drain with the coolant / cutting emulsion in the tanks and can clog the pumps! We recommend using hinged steel belt conveyors where the chips get caught on the belt and the coolant is filtered through. Using chip scrapers to scrape the chips off the belt or air knives is inevitable.
Use our belt filters or the BROXFIL complete filtration system for the consequent cleaning of the cutting liquids.
If you are getting very fine chips, for example, from bronze, it is necessary to evaluate the conveyor type case by case.
In case of longer chips, for example, from an alloy of aluminum, when machining aluminum wheel rims, we again recommend using hinged steel belt conveyors.
| 10. Small floating chips | 11. Small floating chips | 12. Small floating chips | ||
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| Material: aluminum and its alloys. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: copper, non-ferous metals. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: plastic. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quotation. |
Types of chips suitable for scraper and magnetic conveyors (13—15)
In case of scraper conveyors, we always offer the bottom and tracks made of highly wear-resistant materials. This design of the conveyor allows transporting even small chips from, for example, cast iron, as well as small chips from steel, hardened or tough materials. As an option (additional accessory) to the scraper conveyors, we offer scrapers from special copper or spring steel.
When choosing a magnetic conveyor, the transported material must always be magnetic.
| 13. Small, very short chips | 14. Small to dust chips | 15. Small, very short chips | ||
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| Material: standard, tough and hardened steel, cast iron Recommendation: scraper conveyors or magnetic conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: cast iron and steel cast. Recommendation: scraper conveyors or magnetic conveyors. Request For Quotation. | Material: standard, tough and hardened steel, cast iron. Recommendation: scraper conveyor or magnetic conveyors. Request For Quotation. |
Parts from shaping - cold or hot forming and waste from this production, recycling (16—18)
Request conveyors for removing, for example, small forgings, cuttings from sheet metal pressing or other wastes form your production.
| 16. Finished products or waste | 17. Metal scrap - recycling | 18. Metal scrap - recycling | ||
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| Materiál: parts or waste from cold or hot forming. Recommendation: hinged belt conveors. Request For Quotation. | Material: mixture of various metal scrap – recycling. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quottaion. | Material: mixture of various metal scrap – recycling. Recommendation: hinged belt conveyors. Request For Quottaion. |
