Martin Engineering featured new product designs at MINExpo 2024. These heavy-duty (HD) and extra-heavy duty (XHD) accessories are designed to significantly improve efficiency while reducing dust emissions and offering safer maintenance and replacement. The result is greater productivity with less labor for a lower cost of operation.
Game-Changing Belt Cleaners – Primary and secondary conveyor belt cleaners are going through a design renaissance as of late. Martin ECOSAFE Primary and Secondary Cleaners XHD withstand heavy-duty environments while using less urethane in their construction and mounted on a safe-to-service assembly with easily swapable individual cartridges. The design allows the majority of the urethane to be used for the blade and less is used at the support base which features a removable and reusable metal insert.
The next iteration of the CleanScrape primary and secondary cleaners is the Heated CleanScrape Primary Cleaner, which is heat-traced within the blade making it ideal for harsh sub-zero climates where frozen material buildup can affect performance and cause unnecessary downtime.
Requested by customers, the mining-grade Martin UBX Secondary Cleaner is designed as a longer lasting and user-friendly alternative to similar units on the market. Intended for wider and faster belts, the new blade is made entirely of urethane or urethane with an embedded cleaning element that is more robust and longer wearing than comparable blades on the market, noted the OEM. The blade is held snugly to the belt by a mechanical spring tensioner as opposed to an air-supplied tensioners, which are unreliable, onerous to maintain, and expensive to operate.
Wrapping up the new secondary blade offerings are the Martin SQC2S Cleaner with Orion HD and XHD Blades. Following the successful introduction of the standard model, the more rugged version for wider and faster belts is engineered to handle the most punishing applications.
A two-tiered tensioning system with a spring tensioner on the assembly and another rubber tensioner on the blade attachment ensures the urethane and tungsten carbide blade needs considerably less monitoring and tensioning.
This low maintenance approach is further supported by the attached polypropene deflector shield to mitigate buildup and usher material away from the mainframe. An important safety feature is the slide-in/slide-out design which allows service and blade replacement to be performed outside the conveyor structure.
Enclosures and Dust Control – The Martin Magnetic Inspection Door is a durable two-part design with a urethane shield and a strong magnetic seal that covers and protects a monitoring and maintenance space on the enclosure. Keeping the dust inside, it is easily pulled back for inspection or, during scheduled shutdowns, pulled all the way down or off for improved access.
The Martin Urethane Skirting is a long-lasting wear strip placed outside of the skirtboard of a conveyor loading zone to seal the enclosure and prevent spillage and dust emissions. Produced to the belt’s specific trough angle, the urethane strip offers less friction on the belt edge of high-speed belts than rubber skirting for a longer belt life and less damage to the belt edge.
Martin Engineering, www.martin-eng.com
