Salt Block Up-ender
Date
2011-04-02
Authors
Ruiters, Garret
Patterson, Casey
Shirif, Ahmed
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Publisher
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina
Abstract
An in-line conveyor component for rotating a 20 kg salt block by 90o has been designed for the Canadian Salt Company. The block must be re-oriented for subsequent downstream processing. This innovative addition is powered by a pneumatic actuator which converts linear motion to rotate or flip the salt blocks. This design significantly reduces employee supervision, improves system reliability, and eliminates salt block damage.