Belting Glossary - Conveyor Belt Terms and Meanings

See lagged pulley.

A pulley having its surface covered with lagging.

A smooth or embossed covering on a pulley to increase friction between belt and pulley.

A product made by bonding together two or more layers of material.

Build up from thinner layers.

A part that extends over itself or alike part.

An elevator joint where one end of the belt laps over the other end with the leading edge on the bucket side.

A seam made by placing the edge of one piece of material extending flat over the edge of the second piece of material.

Coming from the side.

Offset of pulleys, idlers, or structure from a design longitudinal reference line.

An open mesh fabric in which the warp yarns are held by the filling yarns with the filling yarns twisted around alternating warp yarns in opposite direction.

A laboratory procedure used to determine the resistance of rubber article to a specific set of destructive forces or conditions.

The net vertical distance material is moved by a conveyor or bucket elevator.

A belt with a rated maximum working tension of less than 160 pounds per inch width.

Bolt holes which have been given a protective coating to cover the exposed carcass.

A separator, usually cloth, plastic film, or paper, used to prevent adjacent layers of material from sticking together.

A series of rolls over which objects are moved by application of power to all or some of the rolls.

The ability of a fully loaded conveyor belt to bridge the idler gap without creasing into the idler gap and carry material without excessive sag between the carrying idler pulleys.

The weight of material per unit of time.

The angle to the horizontal at which material is loaded onto a conveyor belt.

The energy with which material is loaded onto a conveyor belt.

A lengthwise direction.

A seam joining two materials in the length of the finished product.

A selvage formed by having the filling loop around a catch cord or wire, which is later withdrawn, leaving small loops along the edge of the cloth.

A separation of the cover from the carcass or textile reinforcement.

An edge which has separated from a textile carcass.

A separation between adjacent plies of fabric.

A depression below the general surface of an object.

The ability of belting to be bent or flexed at low temperatures without loss of serviceability.

The act of bending a product under conditions of a cold environment.

The size of larger material on a conveyor belt.