CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A TRANSPORT MACHINE FOR CONVEYING BALL-LIKE MATERIAL

Conveying of granular material in the manufacturing process is quite common. The transport system design directly affected by the properties of the material and the transport conditions. Grainy materials can be transported not only by mechanical methods such as belt, screw, bucket and so on but also by pneumatic and hydraulic systems. It is a general requirement for the conveying equipment to allow both horizontal and vertical conveying to be able to transport the material with minimum energy cost. The main goal of this work is to design a special machine which transports ball-like materials from one source to another. The well-known systematic design approach is used to reach the optimum design satisfying design constraints. This design process includes clarify the task (problem definition), conceptual design (establish solution principles), embodiment design (achieve concept variants and selection) and detail design of selected variant. In present study, by following systematic design approach, a transport machine with a rotary plate was designed.