Non-powered Conveyor
Non-powered roller conveyors uses manual handling to transport products from point A to point B. This solution to materials handling within the factory or warehouse environment offers an excellent low-cost solution for typical applications such as ‘Work-in-progress’ storage/retrieval or assembly workstations. Our systems are custom designed and manufactured to provide easy manual handling of heavy and bulky loads to suit your application. Our conveyors can also be designed to utilise gravity feed when used for pallet FIFO storage/retrieval applications.
Our systems can incorporate the following equipment;
Transfer Car (single, double or triple conveyor lane with options "power assist")
Rotator Conveyor
Tipping Unit
Turnover Unit
Fork truck load / unload conveyor
Scissor Lift (optional height control)
Slave board to Euro pallet converter unit
Gravity roller are a popular choice is a variety of industries as these type of conveyors do not require any additional forces to move objects down the process line.
Roller conveyors compromise of cylinders on axle shafts giving allowing a very low friction surface to transport product. Low friction rollers mean that the minimum of gravitational force is required to make the rollers rotate. This type of roller conveyor is ideally suited to heavy-duty loads and is a tailor made solution for flat-bottomed objects.
Gravity roller conveyors are by far the most popular conveyor design used in industry. Gravity roller conveyors offer great support for the bottom surfaces of transported items. Although this type of roller conveyor can be used for cartons with irregular surfaces, care would need to be taken at the design stage to ensure product will not ‘mould’ to the shape of the rollers, thus stopping the travel of the product.
Level conveyors rely on product being manually pushed along to the next work point or operation. Gravity roller conveyors are positioned on a decline, allowing items to move down the roller conveyor to the desired location under gravity.
Gravity roller conveyors are widely used in distribution centres, the wood industry, and many manufacturing applications. Gravity roller conveyor systems rely on the initial force that is already imparted on the object as it enters the roller conveyor. Typically, this would come in the form of the initial force that the operative applies to the object as it is pushed onto the roller conveyor.
We are your trusted engineering partner
Andrews Automation Ltd are able to offer an in-house design service with the facility to design a non-powered system to suit your needs
AAL are able to offer a reliable, long-term solution based on the client product to be transported.
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