Accumulation Conveyor

Bastian will examine your needs and goals to assist you in determining the best accumulation conveyor available to meet your material handling integration needs. Accumulation conveyor is very similar to live roller conveyor except that the drive pressure on the product can be easily adjusted to a minimum or even eliminated. Many times, it is necessary to be able to accumulate a long line of boxes without back pressure so they are ready to be fed into loading, sorting, strapping, palletizing, or many other operations. Some of the technologies we employ include:

Motorized Drive Roller Accumulation Conveyor

Motorized drive roller conveyor
Motorized drive roller conveyor requires no air or special brakes, rather it works solely from electrical control. Motorized drive roller conveyor has many applications including accumulation in curves, inclines, and declines. Powered roller accumulation has the capability to interface with a PLC or PC based control package. This allows for maximum ability of control and flexibility. Each zone is powered by a motorized roller. The remaining rollers in that zone are slave driven from the motorized roller with o-rings.

Zero pressure accumulation conveyor

Zero pressure accumulation conveyor
Zero pressure accumulation conveyor ensures that product do not touch each other during the conveying process. Drive pressure is removed by placing sensors at regular intervals. When activated, the sensors remove pressure from the preceding zone. Applications for this conveyor must be reviewed carefully because many factors affect proper operation. Conveyor speeds may vary from 30 to 250 feet per minute. At higher speeds, product will be tested for accumulation and slip characteristics.

Zero pressure accumulation conveyor is divided into accumulation zones. Each zone extracts power from a flat drive belt that runs the entire length of the conveyor. The drive belt is pneumatically lowered away from the tread rollers causing product in that zone to stop. Accumulation modules sense product presence and control the accumulation and release of product from the zones.

The zero pressure accumulation Bastian offers allows for tremendous flexibility with zero pressure applications. Some features of the zero pressure accumulation conveyor we offer includes sleep mode, slug or semi-slug release, jam detection, and operation that is independent of the control system.

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Minimum pressure accumulation conveyor

Minimum pressure accumulation conveyor
Minimum pressure accumulation conveyor allows products to lightly touch each other during the conveying process. Enough power is removed from the tread roller to stop a moving package, but not too much back pressure to cause package damage. The amount of back pressure on this type of conveyor is usually 2% of the total live load on the conveyor and is adjustable.

Bastian offers several types of minimum pressure accumulation conveyors including flat belt driven and v-belt driven conveyors. By maintaining a constant minimum pressure on the tread rollers, long loads may be conveyed, accumulated or stopped on the conveyor at any point using very little motor horsepower giving practically no pressure between boxes or packages.

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