Larger belt fasteners last longer under tension
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Flexco (Flexible Steel Lacing Company) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 9, 2005
The Flexco R9S features a high-strength eight-rivet attachment, greater reachback, thicker plates and larger hinge pins for longer life on higher-tension belts.
New Flexco R9S, now the biggest size available in the Flexco SR scalloped-edge rivet-hinged conveyor belt fastener system, features a high-strength eight-rivet attachment, greater reachback, thicker plates and larger hinge pins for longer life on higher-tension belts with mechanical fastener ratings up to 350kN/m.
Developed for heavily loaded mainline and panel belts in underground and surface mining, the new R9S fasteners are stamped from 300 Series stainless steel 3.5mm thick, and accommodate belt thickness ranging from 16 to 25.5mm, running on conveyors with end-pulley minimum diameters of 1050mm.
The R9S fastener grips the belt end between top and bottom plates, approximately 38mm wide and joined at one end by two wide hinge loops sized to accept hinge pins 16 or 19mm in diameter, depending on belt thickness.
Flexco's patented scalloped edge design, featuring leading/trailing edges formed into a concave, scalloped shape with more-prominent edge coining (bevelling), allows the fastener plate ends to embed deeper into the belt cover with less effort, minimising splice height.
This helps produce a lower profile splice that passes more smoothly under belt cleaners and skirtboards.
A viewport in each fastener top plate lets the installer see when the belt end is properly butted against a belt stop formed into the fastener's bottom plate, for accurate, uniform positioning across the squared belt end, producing a straighter splice that promotes a truer-tracking belt.
Fasteners are supplied in strips of six or seven plates each, which helps assure uniform plate spacing and alignment, packaged in four combinations to splice standard belt widths of 1200, 1350, 1500, 1800 or 2130mm.
Strips feature break-away bridges between fasteners, which allow any number of fasteners to be broken off to trim the strip to any nonstandard belt width.
These bridges also let new splices conform automatically to troughing idlers on first pass.
Hammer-driven, self-setting rivets pioneered by Flexco simplify and speed installation.
Eight different rivet lengths, to suit various belt thicknesses, are made of Type 409 stainless steel and prefitted with break-away pilot nails that penetrate the belt carcass without damage.
A portable installation tool clamps belt end and fastener strips in precise alignment while the rivets are driven.
The Flexco MSRT9 multiple-rivet driving system uses preloaded guide blocks to hold 32 rivets in alignment over the rivet holes of four adjacent R9 fastener plates.
The standard Flexco SR five-pronged drive rod is used to drive and set five rivets simultaneously, then turned 180 degrees to drive and set the remaining three rivets.
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