Roach Conveyors, Heavy Duty & Modular Conveyors, Conveyor Systems

Accumulation Conveyors hold product in place until they are signaled to resume conveying. Accumulation conveyors may be roller, belt or chain conveyors. Applications include feeding product to a machine at a specified rate, or to hold all items in a batch until they are needed for the next process. This is useful when a line of packages need to be accumulated without pressure so that they can be utilized in a process such as loading, sorting, taping, strapping, palletizing or picking. Accumulation conveyors may be minimum back pressure or zero back pressure.

Belt Conveyors are available in both slider bed and roller bed styles. Slider bed belt conveyors are utilized for the transportation of hard to convey items such as small parts or items with inconsistent shapes or sizes. These conveyors can be configured for inclines, declines, or horizontal applications. Slider bed belt conveyors are often used in packaging, shipping, inspecting, testing and assembly. Belt conveyors are ideal for handling chips, slugs, scrap wood, paper waste, boxes, packages and cartons. Roller bed belt conveyors typically require less horsepower than slider bed belt conveyors with similar length and loading. Each roller helps minimize friction, thus providing for greater capacities. They provide an economical method of moving medium weight products.

Chain Conveyors are designed to move products that a roller conveyor will not. Drag chain conveyors convey heavy duty unit loads and often are suited for products with unusual conveying characteristics such as pallets or specialty tote pans. Typical drag chain conveyors use two strands of chain to transport the product. Additional chain strands can be added to increase load capacities.

Chain Driven Live Roller Conveyors are specifically designed to transport heavy duty loads such as tote pans, castings, drums, pallet loads, etc. It is especially suited for carrying loads in the presence of oil and other such contaminates. CDLR conveyors are available to accumulate loads as well. These conveyors are ideal for bi-directional applications.

Taylor Material Handling & Conveyor is a Roach Conveyor distributor/dealer for flexible conveyors. Flexible, gravity conveyors work well when combined with ergonomically loading/unloading of trucks or shipping and receiving areas inside a warehouse, for example. There are many other applications they can be used for.

Line Shaft Conveyors are powered by a shaft beneath the rollers. These conveyors are suitable for applications up to 75# such as cardboard boxes and tote boxes. A single shaft runs below the rollers running the length of the conveyor. Curves, spurs and a number of accessories may be driven by a single drive. Advantages of this conveyor are quiet operation, easy installation, moderate maintenance and low expense. Line shaft conveyors are also extremely safe for people to work around because the elastic belts can stretch and not injure fingers should any get caught underneath them. Moreover, the spools will slip and allow the rollers to stop moving if clothing, hands or hair gets caught in them. Line shaft conveyors are an excellent choice for accumulation of boxes and totes.

The Motor Driven Zone Accumulator (MDZ) from Roach
Conveyors is the most efficient and reliable transportation
solution available for any industry application including parcel, e-commerce and retail, airports, warehouse and distribution centers, packaging, and more. The MDZ is band-driven by the low profile Unidrive motor system for high-speed precision and near silent operation.

The Powered Roller Accumulator conveyor has revolutionized the automated conveyor industry. Motorized rollers drive the conveyors eliminating the need for drive belts, chains or line shafts.

Plastic Modular Belt Conveyors can be utilized wherever there is a need to handle heavy loads for accumulation, where drainage or airflow are required, or where there is a need to transport around a curve. They are also used in applications such as transporting, turning, merging, diverting, or accumulating products. Plastic Modular Belt Conveyors are designed to handle various sizes of bottles, cans, jars, cartons and cases with maximum efficiency and minimum pressure.

Sortation Conveyors are used in distribution facilities in an automated order fulfillment process to sort items to packing stations. Another common use is to sort finished goods orders to specific destinations or shipping dock doors. Sorting conveyors are comprised of flow deflectors, wheel diverters, roller belt diverters, pushers, transfers and shoe sorters. High speed sorters were designed in response to an increasing demand for high-speed distribution equipment. Single side sorting rates can be accomplished up to 250 cartons per minute and double side sorting up to 150 cartons per minute.

Indexing powered turntables convey heavy unit loads in numerous applications. A heavy-duty chain driven live roller may be mounted on turntable platform and rotated to orient product at specified intervals allowing operator to perform a variety of tasks.

Vertical Conveyors are designed to convey a product around obstacles whether it is from floor to floor or just another conveyor line at a constant speed. Vertical conveyors are also known as freight or material lifts, pallet lifts, tote lifts, modular box lifts. Applications include mezzanines, distribution facilities, warehouse and storage, manufacturing, schools, universities, hospitals and government facilities. Vertical conveyors are designed to handle boxes and totes all the way up to 12,000# loads. Vertical conveyors have a smaller footprint than an inclined conveyor, concerning valuable floor space.