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Modern vertical conveyors contain a lot of innovative technology. These machines are used in many industrial settings to improve efficiency in mass production of many products you use. There are many configurations of incline conveyor systems but we'll only talk about two here. Automatic Bucket Elevators These contraptions are specialized belt conveyors for bulk materials that move up a vertical path often many storeys high. Cambelt, a builder of industrial conveyors, designs bucket elevators for various applications including mining, agricultural, and final food preparation. Powders or granules are loaded onto a horizontal belt, which turns vertical along a hold-down disc assembly — a set of stationary wheels holding the belt in place during a concave directional change. Buckets on the belt then lift the material until it turns horizontal again and is unloaded. Because a bucket conveyor can't be scraped clean like other belts, a specialized rotary belt "thumper" is used, which shakes debris from the buckets on the downward journey by vigorous vibration. Air knives are sometimes used depending on the material conveyed. Spiral Incline Conveyors Spiral conveyors are made for the purpose of lifting packaged goods in tight horizontal spaces. They convey product up a circular path. The side-to-side shifts along the conveyor's path make one piece belts unusable. But the moveable slats they use leave gaps, which aren't useful belt conveyors for bulk materials. Spiral conveyors often use overlapping slats supported by bearings to travel from circular to straight paths and back. When the segmented belt moves across straight parts of the conveyor at either end, slats align uniformely. But when on the circular section, one side of the segmented belt expands to take on the shape of the path. The speed of loading many packages on a spiral conveyor at once makes it a much more efficient vertical conveyor than most platform lifts for high volumes of product. Cambelt International 2820 W 1100 So. Salt Lake City, UT 84104 Phone: (801) 972-5511

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