Process and apparatus for regulating the operation of a stripping apparatus at a conveyor belt

US10351351B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• F. E. SCHULTE STRATHAUS GMBH & CO. KG · US

Inventors

• Michael Schulte Strathaus · Wickede (Ruhr), DE
• Harald P. Mathis · Bonn, DE
• Andreas R. Haase · Sunrise, US
• Marcus Stiemer · Hamburg, DE
• Marco Rozgic · Goldkronach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 22, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 16, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G45/12
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The subject of the invention is a method for regulating the operation of a stripping device on a conveyor belt (1) of a conveyor belt system for transported material (6), wherein, in order to strip transported material (6) adhering to the conveyor belt (1), a stripping segment (9) of the stripping device (8) is advanced onto the conveyor belt (1) with its stripping edge (10) by an advancing drive (13) and at least the advancing force with which the advancing drive (13) advances the at least one stripping segment (9) onto the conveyor belt (1) is regulated as a regulating variable by an electronic controller (14) on the basis of the value, determined by at least one sensor (15), of at least one guide variable. This method is optimized in that the output signal of an optical sensor (15, 15′, 15″) that is embodied as an image processing electronic system is used as a guide variable, said sensor optically capturing the state of the conveyor belt (1) or of the stripping segment (9), and/or in that the output signal of at least one acoustic sensor (16) embodied as a microphone and/or as an electronic sound converter is used as a guide variable.