The seals are designed to prevent material leakage as well as dust reduction. To ensure sealing contact of the makeshift rubber seals with the surface of the belt, an extensive weight application is required, which will lead to serious friction and, consequently, rapid abrasion, resulting in more downtime hours.
The conveyor belt is constantly moving, and its movement goes beyond the direction set by the drums. It bends to the left and right under the weight of the feed, such movements may result in belt wrapping under the pressure of makeshift seals and the material spills out. Not a problem, many will say, we can employ people to shovel the material back in place. Yes you can, but who will be doing their job while they are at it? It quickly turns into the problem of inefficient manual labor, you must agree that no enterprise can call itself innovative while they still task people to shovel material spills. It is not that critical, you will say. Or is it? Chaotic belt movements provoke small particles getting under the seals. Which creates unnecessary friction. Unfortunately, this not only leads to rapid belt abrasion, but also to fires. Because of the tight contact and extra friction, the surfaces heat up and flare up instantly. You will consider yourself lucky if your only consequences will be additional repair costs, increased factory downtime and defaulted contracts, but it could end up in a much more tragic way for the workers, resulting in a lockup for the entire management team.
Conveyor sidewalls seals, however small, play a huge role in a production company.
TAPP Group has developed a new generation of sidewall seals based on natural rubber - TAPP Sealing Boot. Our specialists paid attention to every detail.
Operating time of our sidewall seals is 12 600 m/h. Which is confirmed by the TAPP Sealing Boot Operational Results Certificate.