Belt conveyors history of the development 

 Ancient Chinese drum cars and carrying water, overturned, is the prototype of the modern bucket elevators and scraper conveyors; in the 17th century, began to use aerial tramway to transport bulk materials; the mid-19th century, the modern structure of the delivery of machine appear in succession. 

 1868, in the UK, a belt conveyor; 1887, a screw conveyor in the United States; 

 1905 in Switzerland, the steel belt conveyor; 

 Inertia conveyors, in the UK and Germany in 1906. 

 Since then, the conveyor by the impact of machinery, electrical, chemical and metallurgical industry, technological progress, and constantly improve, step by step to complete the delivery of the workshop within the development to completion within the enterprise, between enterprises, and even between cities, Material Handling, a material handling system mechanization and automation indispensable part of. 


 The domestic situation of belt conveyor 

 China's manufacturing belt conveyor varieties, many types. During the Eighth Five-Year Plan "period, through the implementation of the project countries through-train" Nissan million tons of mining equipment, belt conveyor technical level has been greatly improved, coal mine with high-power, long-distance belt conveyor The key technology research and development of new products have made great progress. 

 Long distance belt conveyor such as the inclination of complete sets of equipment, high production and high efficiency working face telescopic belt conveyor and so on to fill the domestic blank, and belt conveyor to reduce the key technology and its main components, a theoretical study and product development, successfully developed a variety of soft start and brake, and PLC as the core programmable electronic control device, the drive system with variable speed fluid couplings and planetary gear reducer.