conveyor belt
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English
Etymology
Noun
conveyor belt (plural conveyor belts)
- A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.
- Hypernyms: belt, endless belt
- 1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:
- Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
- 1964 July, “Ford Traffic Won by BR”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
- BR success in establishing this new "Company" train service follows a year's operation of a conveyor-belt traffic in car parts between the Ford plant at Dagenham and the firm's recently-opened £30m Merseyside factory at Halewood, where Ford Corsairs, Capris and Anglias are manufactured.
- 2022 February 23, “Network News: Conveyor belt to move HS2 earth”, in RAIL, number 951, page 20:
- Buckinghamshire Council has received proposals from HS2 Ltd to install a conveyor belt near Small Dean, Wendover. [...] The conveyor belt would be in place for two years and is estimated to remove the need for some 200 lorries per day.
Alternative forms
Translations
continuous band moved to transport objects
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