Design and Fabrication of Conveyor Belt System for Automatic Metal Sorting And Transportation

Abstract

The automatic sorting system has been reported to be complex and a global problem. This because of the inability of sorting machines to incorporate flexibility in their design concept. This research therefore designed and developed an automated shorting object of a conveyor belt. The developed automated sorting machine is able to incorporate flexibility and separate pieces of nonmetal object and at the same time move object automatically to the bucket as define buy the regulation of the micro controller with a capacitive proximity sensor to detect a value rang of object. The result obtained shows that metal and nonmetal were sorted in to their respective and correct position with a good average time. The project detects the objects totally different of various materials and segregate in 2 different boxes. By usage of sensors decreases the errors in sorting and reduces the human uses. The projected system involves sensing element, mini limit switch for sensing elements and for sorting purpose linear motion electrical actuators area unit used.