- Conveyor White Papers
- Conveyor Basics
- Illustrated Conveyor Guide
- Conveyor Terminology Glossary
- Conveyor Design
- A guide to ergonomic conveyor workstation design
- A guide to incline conveyors
- Straight Transfer Application Guide
- Controlling Package Gaps
- How to Convey Totes
- Conveyor system testing
- 6 Steps to a world-class conveyor system
- Using non-accumulating curves in EZLogic accumulating conveyor lines
- Conveyors and the heat: how to deal with conveyor in hot environments
- Conveyor Belt Types
- Online Conveyor Calculators
- Productivity and Efficiency
- 8 things to remember to keep your conveyor system running smoothly
- 10 Ways to Improve Conveyor Productivity
- Optimizing your Conveyor System
- Conveyor energy savings
- Drives
- Pull - Don't Push - With End Drives
- Adjustable Speed Drives
- Calculating Conveyor Speed
- Loading Conveyors
- Shock Loading: the issues
- What are you conveying? Conveyor load factors
- Sortation
- Sorting with Belt Conveyor - A guide
- Pallet Conveyor
- Pallet Conveyor Load Application Guide
- Handling parallel pallet runners
- Safety
- Package conveyor safety standards - an explanation
- OSHA Conveyor safety standards
- Conveyor safety resources
- Printable conveyor safety posters
- Emergency stops
Sorting with Belt Conveyors - A Guide
Boxes may be sorted from a slider bed or a roller bed
conveyor.
For details on individual conveyors, click the link below for each type. All of these conveyors can serve in a sorting operation.
Slider Bed Conveyors
Roller Bed Conveyor
Diverting a Package
Belt conveyors are usually best where we must divert a package to a specific location in an exact time frame. Since there is less package slippage on a belted unit, timing can be more exact.
In the example below, the Hytrol ProSort 50/50 pusher is being used with the Hytrol Model SB. This pusher has been specifically designed for use with this conveyor.
Pushing a box off a conveyor belt may affect the belt tracking. When pushing boxes over 15 to 20 lbs., a roller bed conveyor should be used with a special smooth surface (low coefficient of friction) belt which allows a box to slide off easily. The bottom side of this belt must have a high coefficient of friction to prevent it from sliding laterally across the rollers.
For more information on sorting with belt conveyors, contact Cisco-Eagle Customer Service.
