Chute Design Best Practices to Reduce Impact and Abrasion

Transfer chutes are often afterthoughts, yet poorly designed chutes cause material impact, excessive wear, segregation and belt damage. Direct vertical drops smash particles and accelerate liner erosion.

Good chute design uses curved rock boxes that let material slide on a layer of itself, rock-on-rock protection, and controlled velocity transitions to absorb impact energy.

SMP custom-engineered transfer chutes incorporate wear liners, adjustable deflector plates and dust sealing. They minimize particle degradation and extend the service life of downstream conveyors.

Optimized chutes reduce maintenance shutdowns, preserve aggregate particle shape and keep material segregation under control.

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