Abstract: This invention relates to improvements to a weighbridge belt scale, used in combination with a conveyor system, that incorporates a pair of base plates, attached to an existing conveyor structure, each base plate contains two weight sensors, which connect upon riser blocks, to provide for uniform clearance between the mount base plates, and the idler mount plates, of the conveyor system. Various rod end bearings allow for minor corrections to the assembly imperfection, and various shims can be used to make sure that the overall height of the standard idler and the scale weighbridge are adjusted to a height that matches with the other idler rollers of the conveyor belt system. This provides for more precise calculation of the parameters being detected by the weight sensors, so that more accurate determination of the weight, speed, and volume of the materials being conveyed, are attained.

Abstract: The loadcell live idler platform scale has an idler to support a conveyor belt and a frame on which the rollers are mounted. The weighbridge has four load cells connected perpendicular to each end of the frame, strain gauges to receive deflections from each pair of load cells, a speed detector for the material passing upon the conveyor, and a controller for converting the signals of the strain gauges and the speed detector to the desired weight and volume data along with calibrating the scale. Beneath the idler, the scale has a calibration weight resting in a tray. Two cables, attached to the idler and its mounts, suspend the calibration weight and an activator raises and lowers the calibration weight. The calibration weight and activator are generally cylindrical and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the idler.

Abstract: The loadcell live idler platform scale has an idler to support a conveyor belt and a frame on which the rollers are mounted. The weighbridge has four load cells connected perpendicular to each end of the frame, strain gauges to receive deflections from each pair of load cells, a speed detector for the material passing upon the conveyor, and a controller for converting the signals of the strain gauges and the speed detector to the desired weight and volume data along with calibrating the scale. Beneath the idler, the scale has a calibration weight resting in a tray. Two cables, attached to the idler and its mounts, suspend the calibration weight and an activator raises and lowers the calibration weight. The calibration weight and activator are generally cylindrical and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the idler.