Mobile Mineral Processing Station Pivotable Conveyors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile mineral material processing stations face challenges in portability and operational configuration, requiring improved compactness for transportation and flexibility in operation to fit within standard containers and facilitate efficient processing.
Innovation Solution
The mobile mineral material processing station features pivotable conveyors and a tilting mechanism that allows for a compact transport configuration and an extended operating configuration, enabling the conveyors to adjust angles and positions dynamically for efficient processing and transportation, with the ability to pivot exit conveyors and tilt key components to optimize space and functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the mobile mineral material processing station is designed with a wide screen for processing capacity, then the processing capability is improved, but the transport width increases making it difficult to fit within standard containers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the conveyor belts dynamically adjustable between extended operational positions and retracted transport positions. The conveyors can pivot and fold to change their spatial configuration, allowing the machine to adapt its width for both processing capacity and container transport requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nesting by folding the conveyor belts onto themselves and positioning them in nested configurations during transport. The conveyors are folded onto the screen and nested within the machine's footprint, significantly reducing the overall transport width while maintaining full functionality during operation.
2Device complexity
If the conveyor belts are made fixed for structural simplicity, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability and flexibility in field operations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses dynamics to enable the conveyor belts to be adjusted between different operational configurations. The conveyors can be extended for processing, retracted for transport, and positioned at various angles to adapt to different field conditions, providing versatility without requiring completely separate systems for each operation mode.
3Productivity
If the exit conveyors are positioned for optimal discharge during operation, then the processing efficiency is improved, but the transport configuration becomes more complex and wider
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the exit conveyors dynamically positionable. During operation, they extend to optimal discharge positions for processing efficiency. During transport, they pivot and fold back onto the machine body, reducing the overall width and simplifying the transport configuration without permanent structural compromise.
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AI summary
A mobile mineral material processing station has a mobile platform (110, 510) having tracks (112) or wheels (520) or a skids (530) for supporting or forming a body (120) that supports in line, in a transport configuration: a feed conveyor (130); a screen frame (140) and a multi-layer screen (142); first and second exit conveyors (150, 160); and a third exit conveyor (170) on top of the first and second exit conveyors (150, 160). The first exit conveyor (150) turns from a transport position, under the third exit conveyor (170), to a first operation direction (a1), onto a first side of the station (100), for operating the station (100), and back. The second exit conveyor (160) turns from a transport position, under the third exit conveyor (170), to a second operation direction (a2) onto a second side of the station (100), opposite to the first side, and back.