Schulte Strathaus’s main focus is the STARCLEAN® conveyor belt scrapers, “which are the problem solver designed to help operating belt conveyors more efficiently.

“The main idea is to provide optimum cleaning, unlike the competition not only for a short time, but from the first to the last minute of the lifespan of the blades. This is reached by the unique Twist-Swing®feature which ensures that every blade adapts to the belt, and therefore compensates individual wear and provides longest lifespans.”

When scraper blades are worn, the replacement should be carried out in a minimum of time. All STARCLEAN® scrapers provide a plug-in foot, and are inserted into the shaft without the use of any tools. This feature paired with one-touch quick-tensioning devices ensure that maintenance can be carried out within minutes.

Known as a technology leader in the field of belt cleaning, Schulte Strathaus has just introduced some great innovations.

First is the torsion tensioning device for heavy duty primary scrapers. With this new tensioning device for belt widths up to 3.2 m and speeds up to 11 m/s primary scrapers do not have to be retensioned (often a big problem for operators of heavy duty conveyors). This new tensioning device maintains perfect tension until the blades are worn.

The company has also introduced a new electrical tensioning device. Used with tungsten carbide scrapers, the new device can disengage the scraper; for example during reversing operation or maintenance, and then move back automatically to the preset tension. As an option the device can readjust the tension automatically also for primary cleaners when wear occurs.

Extremely sticky materials can be cleaned off the belt with the new STARCLEAN single-blade scraper with segmented counter rollers. In order to make sure that material build-up cannot occur, this system uses a single-blade scraper. Because single blade scrapers cannot adapt to the belt properly, limiting cleaning ability, Schulte Strathaus uses an assembly with segmented rollers at the inside of the belt, which gently adapts the belt to the cleaner. With this new system, the company says, “even the stickiest materials can be perfectly scraped off the belt, without material build-up on the scraper.

The roller assembly is equipped with the proven quick tensioning device for easy tensioning.

In addition to conveyor components, the company has launched the innovative closed conveyor belt system SAFEBELT®. The SAFEBELT system is an ideal conveyor for bulk material handling when it is important to avoid transfer points, to go around obstacles and to convey the material in a protected, closed and dustless way. To achieve this, the belt- loop stays closed from the loading point to the unloading point. The execution with various possible horizontal and vertical curves enables the conveyor to easily be adapted to local conditions.

• The closed belt design reduces total costs, because complex enclosures are not needed
• The bulk material is completely enclosed in the belt. There is hardly any inlet or outlet for dust or liquids
• The lightweight steel support and because no special framework makes for simple extension and enables flexible changes of direction
• Due to the possibility of extremely small vertical and horizontal curves additional transfer points are not needed.