METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING CONVEYOR POSITION

摘要

The method for the maintenance of a conveyor structure (9) having a driven conveyor belt (10) mounted on rollers (39 and 41) on a base (13). The method steps include establishing one or more stationary zero set points (16) on the structure and providing one or more cycle points (15) on the belt. Each cycle point marks the terminus of a designated travel distance of the belt. Another step is the providing a counter (14) for measuring the distance traveled by any of the cycle points beyond one or more designated set points. The set of resetting the counter to a desired starting value when the cycle point arrives at a designated set point. The final step of calculating the distance traveled.