Our woven wire conveyor belts are manufactured to various designs and specifications.
They can be manufactured with a large open area mesh to a tight dense mesh using various wire diameters.
They can be friction driven or positively driven with sprockets and a chain edge.
The balanced spiral belt is the most common friction-driven belt design and is often the first choice for most applications unless specific requirements necessitate a different type. It offers a wide range of strengths, aperture sizes, wire diameters, and surface characteristics, making it easily trackable and suitable for high temperatures. Mesh selection depends on the application, product size, weight, support needs, and operating temperature.
Balanced Spiral
- BS- The standard straight running design of single left and right-handed coils joined by crimped cross wires to retain the original belt shape is available in wire diameters from 0.8mm to 4mm and aperture sizes ranging from 3mm to 25.4mm. This type of mesh is also used in various other none conveying roles such as scissor lift safety screens.
- BSPD – Some balanced spiral specifications can be supplied where the mesh Engages with sprocket teeth for positive drive and straight running.
- BSF – Uses flattened wire for spirals and round wire for crimped cross-rods, creating a flat surface
- IBS – Features single right and left-hand spirals with straight cross-rods for a tighter lateral pitch, suitable for conveying small components and heavy loads, and can withstand high temperatures. This mesh is often also used wire mesh lifting slings.
Chain Link
- CL – This is the simplest of all belt designs and comes with either a welded or a knuckled selvedge. Chain link belting is mainly suitable for the handling of small and lighter weight products. The permissible load on this type of belting is relatively small compared to other types of wire belting that are available
- CLR (Rod Reinforced) – A heavy-duty weave belt that has a very high tensile strength compared to its low thermal capacity. This design of belt has a very good weight to load ratio and is used for the conveying of heavy loads especially at elevated temperatures to a maximum of 1150 degrees centigrade.
- CLR(Duplex) – This is a very heavy-duty style of woven wire belting which is very similar to the rod reinforced design except that it is made up of “double” coils. This helps to decrease the percentage of open area whilst increasing the weight and tensile strength of the belt.
Cordweave
In order to obtain a very closely woven mesh belt it is possible to multiply the number of spirals and cross-rods per pitch and this construction is known as Cordweave or compound weave belting. This type of belt is ideally suited to the conveying of very small items such as rice, grain or very small fasteners.
Chain Driven Belt
Chain driven woven wire mesh belts should be considered whenever timing, transfer or positive belt drive is important. This includes applications incorporating inclined travel, heavy loads, long distance conveying or when transporting items through quenching liquids, cooking oils or similar slippery environments.
A multitude of specifications are available depending upon the size of the product being transported.
Chain driven belts also facilitate the addition of special features such as side plates and cross flights where necessary.
