C J Waterhouse Company were initially contacted back in 2014 by Loesche UK, a specialist engineering company working within the power generation industries. Their initial contact was made with respect to C J Waterhouse Co. supplying a quotation for an automated handling system for recycleble polymer & fibre household waste materials. The system initially comprised of multiple bulk storage vessels supplying a number of milling machines via a network of conveying and elevation systems.
Due to the project complexity and size C J Waterhouse have provided periodic engineering support and materials handling consultancy to Loesche to aid in their tender process.
As part of the system design the raw material must be conveyed from a single source to multiple milling lines using simple mechanical conveying systems. C J Waterhouse were asked to design and build a prototype conveying system to perform this operation.
Following a number of preliminary design concepts a plough conveyor system developed where by material could be collected from the feed conveyor at multiple opposing locations via pneumatically operated swinging ploughs.
Using this system material can be fed out to a single destination (line 4 in above diagram) or to multiple destinations at a reduced rate (lines 1 and 4 in diagram below). Each of the plough gates comprise of the main plough which incorporates a vertically mounted belt conveyor to actively move material off the feed conveyor and a pre plough system swinging in opposition to the main plough. This pre-plough allows the discharge opening to be increased for material flow purposes (as shown above) but can also move into the product stream to reduce the potential of material trapping when the main plough conveyor is closing.
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