What is a pallet conveyor?
Pallet conveyor is a piece of industrial equipment that is designed to facilitate the easy transport of goods loaded to metal support known as a palette through a factory or warehouse. The palette itself is usually made of wood, although other materials can be used; The pallet will support the weight of the different goods of the stacked and secured on it and prevents these goods from being damaged or sticking along the pallet conveyor. The conveyor itself will probably have either a number of cylinders known as rollers or a system of belts.
cylinders are most commonly used in restless systems, although there are some driven systems that use rollers to facilitate the movement of pallets along the track. The uninhabited pallet conveyor will contain a number of rollers laid in the frame of the conveyor; The palette must then move manually along the track and the rollers will help keep the palette in motion by reducing friction between the cylinders and the palette itself.One or more driving chains that pass through the frame turn the rollers and move the palette along the track without the need for the human service to push it.
Other pallet transport systems can use the belt drive instead. The belt will be mounted around a number of cylinders, some of which will only act as support units and some of them will actually drive the belt. The palette will sit on the belt and pull along the track after moving the belt. The belt systems are exceptionally useful, but can be worn quite quickly. The belt must be properly tensioned to prevent derailment from the track or otherwise torn or damaged.
Sometimes a pallet conveyor is a portable system that can be folded and transported to different places. Such systems will generally contain suspended metal frames that can either be folded on ting in the style of accordion or modular tracks that can be quickly and easily assembled and disassemblet. The key to these systems is portability: the system must not only be stable and usable when set, but must also be easy enough to disintegrate and compact for storage in a truck, trailer or other transport vehicle. The rollers must be sufficiently durable to withstand damage to regular use, as well as from the potential impact that can occur during transport.