Conveyors, which are responsible for continuous material transportation, are common handling equipment in the logistics industry. On the various subdivided types of conveyor and application scenarios, to inventory to see what ways:

Modern all kinds of conveyor structure is roughly driven by the motor drive drive mechanism, and then drive the transmission medium such as belts, rollers and other actions and then drive the upper side of the material such as bins or trays to move forward.

Since belt conveyors cannot be stacked and have high friction, they are also suitable for use as slope lifting and handling.

01. Belt conveyors
Belt conveyor is a very common type of conveyor in warehouse logistics, simple and stable structure, can be handled continuously, and can be flexibly customized into a variety of layouts according to the site and the system of belt conveyor. Usually used for handling light load materials such as boxes and parcels. Belt conveyor does not have the function of material accumulation and caching, as long as the belt conveyor starts, located in the upper side of the material unit are together with the action.

Since belt conveyors cannot be stacked and have high friction, they are also suitable for use as slope lifting and handling.

Belt conveyor is a friction-driven machine that transports materials in a continuous manner. By applying it, it can form a kind of material conveying process from the initial feeding point to the final discharging point on a certain conveying line. It can carry out both the transportation of broken bulk materials, and can also carry out the transportation of pieces of goods. In addition to pure material conveying, it can also be matched with the requirements of the process in the production flow of various industrial enterprises to form a rhythmic flow of transportation lines. Therefore, belt conveyor is widely used in various modern industrial enterprises.

02. Roller conveyors
Roller conveyor is a conveyor that utilizes a number of rollers erected on a fixed support at a certain spacing to convey piece goods. The fixed support is generally made up of a number of straight or curved segments as required. Roller conveyor can be used individually or in conjunction with other conveyors or working machines in the assembly line, which has the advantages of simple structure, reliable work, easy installation and disassembly, depressed maintenance and flexible line arrangement.

Roller conveyor can convey pieces with flat bottoms, such as plates, bars, tubes, profiles, pallets, box containers and all kinds of workpieces along the horizontal or small inclined angles. Also called roller conveyor, roller conveyor is suitable for conveying articles with flat bottom, and for non-flat bottomed articles and flexible articles can be conveyed with the help of pallet. It has the characteristics of large conveying capacity, fast speed, light operation, and can realize multi-species common line conveying. The most prominent is that he and the production process can be better connected and supporting, and has the diversity of functions.

Similar to the belt conveyor, the roller conveyor is a device used in warehousing and logistics centers and factories for the continuous handling of materials. The roller conveyor consists of a number of rollers that rotate to move the material forward. Since the smooth surface of the rollers does not damage the material, the roller conveyor can be used as a functional unit for stocking and caching.

Roller conveyors can carry both light loads of tens of kilograms and heavy loads of tons of pallets.

Technical parameters:

Equipment features:

It is mainly composed of rack, driving device, transfer device, guiding device and so on.

◆ Frame: adopts high-strength aluminum alloy standard profile, mainly consists of frame body, legs, adjustable height (fine-tuning) and fixed equipment position of the legs and so on.

◆ Driving device: motor reducer, driving flat belt wheel, tension adjustment mechanism, etc., SKF bearing.

◆ Transportation device: mainly consists of transportation roller, driving roller rotation belt ring and so on.

◆ Guiding device: set on both sides of the equipment to realize the correct introduction of materials.

Roller conveyor is easy to connect and filter, and can be used with multiple roller lines and other conveying equipment or special machines to form a complex logistics conveying system as well as diversion and merging system, to complete a variety of process needs. Accumulation roller can be used to realize the accumulation of material transportation. Roller conveyor structure is simple, high reliability, easy to use and maintain, power roller line considering the chain tensile strength, the longest single line length is generally not more than 10 meters.

There is a kind of curved roller conveyor in the roller conveyor, the curved roller conveyor adopts cone rollers as the carrier, which can smoothly convey the items with the curves. The drive mode has single chain drive, double chain drive, ring type "0".

Complex logistics and conveying systems, as well as diverting and merging systems, are capable of accomplishing a wide range of process needs.

03. Chain conveyors
Chain conveyor is a machine that conveys goods with a continuous moving endless chain around a number of sprockets. Its structural principle is very similar to belt conveyor. Their difference mainly lies in the fact that belt conveyor uses conveyor belt to haul and carry goods, and relies on friction to drive and transfer traction; while chain conveyor uses chain to haul, and uses plates fixed on the chain to carry goods, and relies on coupling drive to transfer traction.

Chain conveyors are a very common type of conveyor for transporting heavy loads of palletized goods, and require the bottom structure of the pallet to be placed crosswise with the direction of transport of the chain.

The main functional element of the chain conveyor is the conveyor chain, which has the function of transmitting power as well as carrying capacity. As the structure of conveyor chain can be varied, so the chain conveyor can be applied to many working environments and many requirements. Specifically can be summarized as the following points:

1. Diversity of conveyed goods

Chain conveyor can convey almost all types of goods. Bulk materials, such as flour, cement, ash, coal and ore, etc.; small items, such as electronic components, machinery parts, large goods, such as complete home appliances, a variety of machines (such as bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, etc.), a variety of boxed pieces of goods. Take the weight of goods, as small as a few grams of electronic components, as large as more than 10 tons of goods can be conveyed by chain.

2. Adaptability to harsh conveying environment

Chain conveyor can work in almost all kinds of harsh environments, such as low temperature, high temperature, dusty, toxic media, corrosive media and rough loading conditions can be adapted. Therefore, chain conveyor can be used in low temperature cold storage, high temperature drying line, rough loading forest, dusty cement plant and equipment coating line.

3. Arbitrariness of conveyed goods flow direction

Chain conveyor can not only realize horizontal, vertical and inclined conveying, but also can carry out undulating and meandering conveying according to the environmental conditions of the workshop without the combination of multiple machines; it can not only realize straight-line conveying, but also can carry out circular conveying, so that the flow direction of conveyed goods has the greatest arbitrariness.

4. Accurate and stable transportation when working.

Chain conveyor is through the drive sprocket and chain engagement to make the chain to realize the operation, so, unlike the belt drive as there will be elastic sliding, can ensure that the chain conveyor conveying speed is correct and stable and accurate synchronous conveying. Therefore, in the automated production process often use this feature to control the beat of the production line.

5. Long life and high efficiency

The life and efficiency of the conveyor depends on the conveying element. Chain conveyor conveying element is conveying chain, conveying chain components, although it will also use a variety of different properties of the material to manufacture, but the main use of metal materials. Even if the chain is made of many kinds of materials, the chain is also required to achieve the harmony and reasonableness of the overall performance with the components when designing and manufacturing, therefore, compared with other conveying components, conveyor chain is characterized by high strength and long service life. Coupled with the fact that the chain and sprocket are meshing transmission, the friction resistance inside the chain hinge is small, so the chain conveyor is characterized by long life and high efficiency.

04. Pallet jacking loaders
The jacking transfer machine is generally used to change the conveying direction of the articles, feeding or moving the articles from the forkway into or out of the main conveying line. It is characterized by large load bearing, simple structure, stability and reliability.

In some material handling transmission system, due to the layout needs, the material needs to keep its own direction in the conveyor does not rotate, but the transmission direction replacement 90 degrees, then this time need to shift the load machine to complete this function. Commonly, there are chain conveyor nested roller conveyor or roller conveyor nested chain conveyor, two groups of conveyor transmission direction difference of 90 degrees through a jacking mechanism to complete the material in two different conveyor switching.

05. Picking conveyors
Picking Conveyor is a special conveyor that is used for sorting and conveying products. The picking conveyor is completed by a special chain plate and embedded raised ball structure, and is capable of accomplishing high-speed picking tasks.

Different material properties are to be conveyed to different destinations, which is the most basic concept of material picking. In addition to a specialized material sorting organization that distinguishes between different attributes, material picking also necessarily requires conveyors to carry different materials to different downstream destinations. Picking conveyor is to talk about picking and conveying into one, in the process of material conveying and handling and material sorting is also completed.

The high degree of flexibility of the picking conveyor also allows the material to be sorted on the conveyor, the direction and position of the material adjusted, and so on.

06. Reciprocating hoists
Reciprocating hoist, also called elevator, elevator, is a kind of up and down reciprocating transportation equipment in the elevator equipment. Reciprocating elevator is driven by the chain, through the frequency conversion speed control motor, the elevated car up and down reciprocating motion. The elevating car is equipped with a transmission mechanism, so that the conveyed object automatically enters the elevating car of the elevator.

Performance characteristics:

1. The up and down stroke of the lifting car can convey materials, and the materials can be made to flow in both directions at the same time during a cycle of the lifting car.

2. the range of lifting stroke is large, but in the same time the amount of conveying with the increase in stroke and reduce. 3.

3 reciprocating elevator form (fixed or mobile), flexible arrangement, materials can be from all directions in and out of the elevator, easy to produce equipment layout. 4.

4. This type of elevator has advanced control, reliable performance, lifting the car positioning accuracy and other characteristics.

Picking conveyor due to the flexibility of the height can also be the material on the conveyor for stocking, adjusting the direction and position of the material, and so on.

07. Screw conveyors
Screw conveyor, commonly known as a winch, is suitable for horizontal conveying, inclined conveying, vertical conveying and other forms of granular or powdery materials. The conveying distance is different according to the deformity, generally from 2 meters to 70 meters.

Conveying Principle:

The rotating screw blades push the material to be conveyed by the screw conveyor. The force that keeps the material from rotating with the screw conveyor blades is the weight of the material itself and the frictional resistance of the screw conveyor casing to the material.

Screw conveyor rotary axis of rotation, determines the direction of material conveying, but the general screw conveyor in accordance with the design of a single conveyor to design the rotating blades. When conveying in the reverse direction, it will greatly reduce the service life of the conveyor.

All in all, the trend of logistics technology development is bound to be in line with the ever-changing market needs. No matter what kind of technology, there must be business value. Reduce costs, improve efficiency, enhance customer experience, is the logistics technology to bring the more core value, they need to be able to be perceived, quantifiable, deliverable.