Encompasses all of the
driven roller styles of conveyor including Line-shaft
driven type (see separate section), Chain Driven Roller
conveyors and Belt Under Roller conveyors.
All of these conveyors are used in many applications
where straight transport or change of direction is required,
and also provide varying forms of buffer storage or
accumulation.
Chain driven roller conveyors can provide extremely
positive transport of product, but can also be adapted
to give “low pressure” accumulation of product
via the fitting of specially engineered friction clutches
fitted into the body of the roller. Using this style
of product allows goods to be transported, stored and
released as required for further processing.
Belt under Roller conveyors also provide positive transport
of product and can be built in long straight runs. They
are an extremely quiet running conveyor and are virtually
trouble free if maintained regularly.
They are very adaptive as they can be adapted to provide
“low pressure” accumulation of product as
well as “zero pressure” accumulation where
it is desirable for each product on the line to be accumulated
without any adjacent product imparting line pressure
onto it.
The zero pressure conveyor is built to provide many
product zones that are controlled via sensors that detect
products on the conveyor. Each zone acts independently
of the zones on either side of it ensuring that only
one product is stored in its respective zone on the
conveyor.
This style of conveyor is the premium solution where
a low maintenance trouble free storage solution is needed
allowing buffering between manufacturing cells or prior
to automatic palletisers.
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