{"id":545852,"date":"2010-04-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.directindustry.com\/press\/4b-braime-elevator-components\/bulldog-alignment-rip-detection-switch-31528-340316.html"},"modified":"2010-04-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T14:00:00","slug":"bulldog-alignment-rip-detection-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545852","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog &#8211; alignment &amp; rip detection switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulldog alignment and rip detection switch is an electro-mechanical system designed to detect dangerous misalignment of the conveyor and also detection of belt tear damage. <\/p>\n<p>METHOD OF OPERATION:<br \/>\nThe switch will detect horizontal misalignment of belts when contact is made with the roller, the roller arm will be forced to pivot by the belt activating a switch at 15\u00ba to trigger an alarm, and 30\u00ba to trigger a shut down procedure of the conveyor. The sensors are usually installed in pairs on opposite sides of the belt.<br \/>\nA steel flexible wire is set below the running conveyor belt approx 20-30mm attached by a rare earth magnet at each end. If the belt is ripped or damaged the wire is pulled away releasing the magnet connection which in turn will activate a switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulldog alignment and rip detection switch is an electro-mechanical system designed to detect dangerous misalignment of the conveyor and also detection of belt tear damage. METHOD OF OPERATION: The switch will detect horizontal misalignment of belts when contact is made with the roller, the roller arm will be forced to pivot by the belt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}