CONVEYOR TYPES, CATEGORIES AND USES
Industrial conveyors have many different designs and uses. Common conveyor types are belt conveyors, roller conveyors, motorized roller conveyors and overhead conveyors. They can be categorized as floor conveyors (mounted on the floor) or overhead conveyors. They are used to move products, create buffers and deliver products in sequence in a production process.
MAJOR TYPES OF CONVEYORS?
The major types of industrial conveyors are:
- Belt conveyor
- Gravity roller conveyor
- Chain conveyor
- Live Roller conveyor / CDLR
- Motorized roller conveyor / 24V MDR
- Slat conveyors
- Beam trolley systems
- Overhead conveyor
- Power and Free conveyors
- Over Under conveyors
- Inverted conveyors