Just the perfect gift for the kids (or, okay the adult), Rokenbok’s “Conveyor Company” playset. If you need help “installing” it, I’m sure there will be volunteers available.  Poke around Rokenbok’s site – you’ll find add-on’s and accessories that can help you, er, your kids, add to your conveyor system.

Also, you could play with this virtual shipping department conveyor game without waiting for your conveyor game to ship.

Hytrol Conveyors has published a free guide to estimating conveyor projects – its innovative “Stockyard Reference Guide.”

The book, which is a short 24-pages, helps you to get ballpark numbers for conveyor projects in a short amount of time. Of course, you can always call us to help you with that kind of thing (and we’ll be more accurate), but this might be faster for you. Not only do you get the cost per foot estimates, there is also some useful information on how to specify, why one conveyor might fit a situation better than others, and more.

The Reference Guide is designed for typical, ball park estimates – enough to help you get started.

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This guide provides some quick tips to avoid snags, box tumbling, & hang-up’s when you’re transferring from one conveyor to another. Transfers are used to move a package from one conveyor to another, often in a longer line. Straight transfers are the most common type, used to connect individual conveyors in a longer line. Typically, these conveyors can be utilized in straight transfer applications:

• Live Roller Conveyor to Live Roller Conveyor
• Live Roller Conveyor to Belt Conveyor
  
• Belt Conveyor to Live Roller Conveyor
• Belt Conveyor to Belt Conveyor
• Gravity Conveyors can be utilized in conjunction with live roller or belts in transfer situations
• Accumulation and gapping conveyors

Check it out: A guide to conveyor transfers

Anyone who has dealt with material flow onto or off of a mezzanine, up onto a ceiling-mounted conveyor line, or between levels in a building understands just how useful – and how vital – incline conveyors can be. To help you think about how you might implement inclines into your operation, we’ve published the Hytrol guide to incline conveyors.

It’s illustrated and it’s a quick read. Tips include how to set the degree of incline, how to determine box tumbling, and a bit more. We also have some inclined conveyor video available.