ABSTRACT
Engineering steel conveyor chains are the workhorses of the conveying field. They are designed to convey heavy loads and to absorb severe shock loading. In addition, they are expected to operate well in corrosive and very abrasive conditions with little or no protection. Engineering steel conveyor chains may carry heavy weights, such as automobiles on final assembly lines, or they may need to absorb a blow from a log, perhaps 18 in. in diameter and 10 ft long, being dropped endwise on the conveyor from more than 10 ft above the conveyor. Conveyors using engineering steel chains have to operate in all kinds of weather, in sand and saltwater, and in the chemical and abrasive environments of everything from coal, taconite, and granite to sugar cane bagasse and hot lime.
