Live Roller Conveyor
Bastian will examine your needs and goals to assist you in determining the best live roller conveyor available to meet your material handling integration needs. Live roller conveyors are used primarily for applications where diverging or converging of boxes is necessary. Live roller conveyors are preferred over belt conveyors when belt tracking problems can be caused by pushing boxes across a belt. Live roller conveyors can be driven by a belt or a chain. It is possible to stop or hold a box momentarily; however no more than one or two boxes can be accumulated due to excessive back pressure. Because products slide laterally over metal rollers, live roller conveyors are best when a diverter is used. A diverter can be activated by using a reflective photo eye, proximity switch, or barcode reader. Some of the live roller technologies we employ to include:
Flat belt driven live roller conveyor
Flat belt driven live roller conveyor is ideal for merging where positive product flow is required. Can be used for transferring or deflecting boxes onto or off a conveyor line and is often used as a connection between merge tables. The flat belt driven live roller conveyor is not ideal for items with soft or irregular bottoms (i.e. bags). The flat belt driven live roller conveyor has pop-up tread rollers for safety. Curves and spurs are available with v belts.
Lineshaft driven live roller conveyor
Lineshaft driven live roller conveyor is very economical and easily modified. The lineshaft driven live roller conveyor is an excellent transport conveyor used with pop-up diverts, curves, spurs, and transfers with no additional drives or motors. Lineshaft driven live roller conveyors can be used to slave drive curves and spurs. Lineshaft driven live roller conveyors are not recommended for use in oily or dusty environments since this type of environment can cause the drive belt to slip.
Chain driven live roller conveyor
Chain driven live roller conveyor is ideally suited for applications where belt driven live roller conveyor would not be suitable due to the environmental conditions. Examples include manufacturing processes where parts may be oily preventing belts from driving the rollers. This conveyor can also be converted to minimum pressure with the addition of roller sleeves.
More Conveyor Types:
- Sortation Conveyor
- Accumulation Conveyor
- Belt Conveyor
- Belt Over Roller Conveyor
- Vertical Conveyor
- Pallet Handling Conveyor
- Overhead Conveyor
- Low Profile Conveyor
- Modular Plastic Belt Conveyor
- Specialty Conveyor
- Gravity Conveyor
- Flexible/Expandable Conveyor
