Belt conveyor
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A belt conveyor is a conveyor that utilizes endless belts, made from fabric, rubber, plastic, leather, or metal, energized by drives and operating over those drives, tail ends, bend terminals, belt idlers or the slider bed. A belt conveyor handles bulk materials, packages and any object placed directly on the belt.[1]
Other Types of Conveyors
Other types of conveyors include:
- Bucket conveyor
- Cart-on-track conveyor
- Chain conveyor
- Chute conveyor
- Gravity wheel conveyor
- Incline conveyor
- Magnetic belt conveyor
- Monorail
- Pneumatic conveyor
- Power-and-free conveyor
- Reciprocating vertical conveyor
- Roller conveyor
- Screw conveyor
- Slat conveyor
- Sortation conveyor
- Tow conveyor
- Trolley conveyor
- Troughed belt conveyor
- Vertical lift conveyor
- Vibrating conveyor

