A recent application from Dorner Conveyors illustrates how a standard belt conveyor can be adapted easily for a special application.
In high speed packaging and production environments, it's often very desirable to make a pouch or similar package descend or ascent in a very short space.
Normally, conveyors without flights can incline products at angles up to about 35° without too much trouble and without fallback of fall-forward.
With flights, greater angles can be achieved but flights can bring their own problems with sequencing the flights to collect the product at the right time. Also these flights require a gap at the start and end of the conveyor to allow them to rotate under the return roller.
Dorner's vertical pouch elevator was developed to satisfy and application involving the rapid incline of pouches from drop height of filling machines to working height or ceiling height.
In this system, two belts are orientated over the top of each other with the friction of the belts creating a pocket to convey the product up or down.
This solution saves floor space while maintaining pouch orientation and spacing.
The main benefits are that the system uses less linear floor space to elevate pouches and also maintains pouch orientation without crushing contents.
It also maintains pouch spacing allowing for predictable marking or labeling further down the line.
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