Mechanical Handling System

Because of the wear and tear problems, professionals in this business move the crushing machine as close to the source as possible. DISPOSAL of the crushed concrete is done with a dump truck that fits underneath the output belt that brings the gravel to the recycling place or dump. Escavator(s) depose the concrete feed stock direct in the crusher.

Some of them, in demolishing jobs, have special tools on the machine, like grabbers, cutters and more. You are talking about concrete cube but give no further specs.

Dear Sir/Mdm,

Appreciate your response. I should have mentioned that the cube is 150mm in size and is crushed to test the compressive strength. Currently, it is laborious and can be stressful for the operator who has to take the cube from the tank and place it into the crushing machine; and remove it from the machine after test and place it on a wooden palate and subsequently dump into dump truck using fork lift. Very tedious process. Just wonder is there any automation or semi automation with conveyor belt.

tks

rgs

Noel

Can you Google conveyor belt?

Or, turnkey conveyor belt systems?

I sympathize with the trauma of watching a concrete cube being crushed. I hope that psychological counseling is available, preferably bottled.

How thoughtful of you to approach this from the human aspect, instead of the callous, purely mechanical point of view that I have taken. Here I am, just thinking about the dam rock, and how it gets from point A to B to C.

I have meditated for 30 seconds to atone for my thoughtless attitude.

I prescribe two shots of Gran Patron.

(It don't matter about a physician's license. Satisfaction guaranteed. Just send back the unused portion!)

I just happen to have a bottle sitting on the counter. I'll take two by mouth.

Cheers.

Then what you want is probably a "pick'n'place" robot, or a 'cargo handler suit'

This one might be a bit big

is that a badd asss robot of your?

Just use an air hammer to crush the block in place. This will permit much easier movement of your 10*10*10 m cube of concrete that weighs a nominal 2,400,000 kg. Particularly since the hopper to your crusher is 10 km away and 100 meters up the mountain.

Open-ended question → open-ended reply.

There's a ton of these already "explored" and working. Just search for them.

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OOPs. My software won't complete the link. Maybe you can cut and paste it?

I take it this is for a cement plant physical testing lab?

The last two cement plants I worked on had the lab on the first floor so the simple solution was to put the compression test M/C by an outside wall with a chute passing through the wall and out to a skip. A standard 150mm test piece is hardly a great weight to throw in to a chute. A bit basic but it worked! A local contractor collected the skip every other day, as to what he did with it I don't know

A 150 mm cube will still have a nominal mass of 8.1 kilograms. A conveyor belt or drop chute will likely work for handling most elevation changes, provided that any drop doesn't damage the cubes too much. However, your assumption of this being a plant physical testing lab brings up a very critical problem. There will have to be considerable thought applied to identifying which visually identical cement block is being tested in the measuring crusher. Any block that fails or passes the test must be traceable back to the batch that had been poured.

The testing M/C is located at ground floor. For traceability, I heard that RFID tag or bar code tag are possible solution. Do you come across.

good day mate

It's quite a tricky problem, 3 test block are usually made per batch. They are then stored in a very high humidity cool room. The compression tests will be carried out for 3 day, 10 day and 30 day strengths, other tests for expansion used small round samples but all had to be collated. So the records are quite comprehensive

BTW this was for cement production plants not a batching plants.