Accumulation Roller Conveyor
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To decouple operational processes, the accumulation of pallets is often unavoidable in warehouse logistics. For this purpose, we offer our mechanically operated accumulation roller conveyor.
The accumulation roller conveyor is a mechanical conveyor system with a fixed conveying path. While the drive continues to operate, the material being conveyed can be stopped mechanically, and subsequent material also stops automatically. The material itself triggers the system to shut down when a jam occurs and to restart once the jam is cleared.
Possible applications include, among others:
- In camps
- At sorting stations
- Before automated warehouses
- As a feed or discharge conveyor
Advantage
The advantage is that you don’t need batch conveyors with photoelectric sensors or similar devices; instead, the mechanical accumulation principle provides a cost-effective and simple way to accumulate pallets in the frozen-food warehouse.
The individual idler rollers and sections are driven by a roller chain that runs the entire length of the conveyor. This roller chain drives the swing covers, which are grouped into sections via guide rails. When the incoming material actuates the control shaft, the corresponding section is deactivated. The section and the control shafts are offset by approximately half the section length, so that the front idler rollers are deactivated behind any material that has already accumulated.
The rear idler rollers that are still running are shut off when the shift shaft is pressed (the material being conveyed stops automatically). If material is to be removed from an accumulation conveyor, the first pallet in the direction of conveyance begins to move when the upstream shift shaft is released. When the control shaft is released, the idler rollers are driven via the swing covers of the corresponding section. The material is transported.
