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Tube and Chain Conveying Systems

Including Cable & Disc and Chain & Disc Types

Our tube and chain conveyors come in a wide range of sizes to choose from. We are bound to have a conveyor that meets your product transportation needs.

Our Engineers can innovate alternative design arrangements to convey bulk materials within tight space confinements.

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Specifications

Tube and chain conveyors, and tube cable disc conveyors are designed to continuously convey fine powder granules and bulk materials. They can be installed as horizontal, horizontal and vertical, and standalone  vertical arrangement.

For horizontal/flat and horizontal/upright, the cable or chains and discs generate horizontal thrust to push the materials. When the internal friction of material is greater than the external friction of material on the tube wall, the material will move with the discs and form a stable flow.

For vertical/upright, the chains and discs generate up vertical thrust. The under-feeding pattern prevents the product falling and generates lateral pressure that will reinforce the internal friction. When the internal friction is greater than the external friction and the product’s dead weight, the product will move upwards with the discs and form a continuous flow.

Tube and Chain & Cable Conveyor System’s Features:

1.    Flexible: 3D with the tube and chain conveyor

2.    Sealed pattern: dust-tight

3.    Low energy consumption: low costs

4.    No dead areas

5.    No metal on metal friction

6.    Low maintenance cost

7.    Long lifetime operation

8.    Explosion and pressure shock resistant design

9.    Possible to re-start in filled state

10.  Minimal grain or material degradation

Advantages of Tube Type Chain Conveyor

1.    Positive displacement conveying suited to easy centralized control, improving degree of automation and satisfying environmental protection for industrial applications.

2.    Compact design requiring limited space, tri-dimensional conveying direction available.

3.    Flanges between inlet and outlet are airtight, and there is no need to install a filter. No dust emission into the environment.

4.    Material is conveyed smoothly along the lines with little internal movement. Therefore, there is little breakage of material. Slow curve conveying ensures minimal product degradation.

5.    According to different feeding conditions, distance between inlets can exceed 10m.

6.    The hardened chain wheel causes minimum abrasion on operation chain components.

7.    Special transfer dish with extremely low coefficient friction and stable delivering capacity.

8.    All our tube and chain conveyors use our own computer program to design parts including conveying line and curve parts to maintain necessary static friction and take up and provide precise data to ensure low noise and little abrasion.

Application Fields for Tube and Chain & Cable Conveyors

Industry for Fine Chemicals: Pigment, dye, paints, coating, carbon black, titanium pigment, ferric oxide, ceramics powder, coarse whiting, fine particle calcium carbonate, bentonite, molecular sieve, kaolin, silica flower, active carbon, etc.

Pesticide Ores: Urea, ammonium chloride, ammonium bicarbonate, soda powder, solid pesticide, tungsten powder, pesticide adjuvants, copper fine ore powder, coal powder, rock phosphate, alumina powder, etc.

Building Material: Cement, clay, yellow sand, quartz sand, clay powder, silica, limestone flour, dolomite fines, wood chips, fiberglass, silicon dioxide, French chalk, etc.

Foodstuff Industry: Flour, starch, grain, milk powder, food additives, etc.

Suitable for conveying the following materials:

Suitable for use in the following industries:

  Differences between tube conveying systems and conventional conveying systems:

POSSIBLE CONFIGURATIONS

FIELD APPLICATIONS

Installation arrangement to suit material transfer requirements with infeed and discharge transitions being fabricated for on-site assembly. Support brackets and assemblies are detailed according to planning-in drawing detail for convenient installation.

Models available in painted finished carbon steel or stainless steel to suit industrial or Food Grade product handling applications.