Belt Cleaners are special scrapers and plows mounted at strategic places along the belt path to keep the belts clean. Loose material carried back through the conveyor will cause problems to idlers and pulleys and also create big clean up problems along the whole length of the conveyor. V-Plows and Diagonal Plows remove the loose material off the belt at locations where it can be collected. At the head pulley a Pulley Belt Cleaner is often used to remove the main amount of loose material carried over the head pulley and dump it in the head chute.

Material which gets stuck to the belt needs to be scraped off with special scrapers in order to keep the belts operating and tracking properly. Specially designed Multi-Disc Scrapers will scrape the material loose from the belt so it can be removed with a plow.