{"id":9491,"date":"2021-02-12T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/how-do-roller-conveyors-work\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:01:53","slug":"how-do-roller-conveyors-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/how-do-roller-conveyors-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do roller conveyors work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<strong>roller conveyors\u00a0<\/strong>are systems for the movement of goods that are used in a variety of industries and companies: aggregates companies, mining, recycling plants, warehouses and logistics centers, courier companies, supermarkets, airports and ports, companies fruit and vegetables, chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The basic structure of the <strong>roller conveyors<\/strong> is simple, some rollers placed in parallel and anchored perpendicularly to a structure that acts as a guide and support for the entire system.\u00a0The\u00a0rollers can rotate on their anchors to the structures, which allow the products to move.\u00a0However, this basic structure can be adapted through\u00a0different modifications to all kinds of products and forms of movement;\u00a0In addition to needing security systems and movement control;\u00a0as well as\u00a0specific\u00a0protective\u00a0systems\u00a0according to the uses for the heads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<strong>fundamental parts of the rollers\u00a0<\/strong>are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>The\u00a0bearing axle.\u00a0<\/strong>That goes inside the roller and is anchored to the structure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The heads,<\/strong> which is where the bearings are located.\u00a0Located at the ends of the shaft and allow anchoring and turning.\u00a0It is also where traction is applied. It can be manufactured in different materials depending on their application; thus, for heavy structures, rollers with steel heads and steel sprockets or thermoplastic heads for light loads can be used. There are many options among these.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The cylinder\u00a0<\/strong>or external structure of the roller,\u00a0which will allow a large number of modifications adapted to each product or type of movement.\u00a0It can be smooth or tapered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the basic structure described, it is possible to manufacture roller conveyors adapted to each type of function and classes of products, reaching a high degree of specialization.\u00a0Thanks to all options for\u00a0<strong>manufacturing,<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>roller conveyors\u00a0<\/strong>can be used in many applications.\u00a0Thus\u00a0the rollers can be made of steel, aluminum, stainless steel,\u00a0PVC, zinc plated and painted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A first classification of\u00a0<strong>roller conveyors\u00a0<\/strong>is according to the load, they can be: <strong>light, medium or heavy load rollers.<\/strong> And the speed of movement of the load.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also,\u00a0if the movement of the\u00a0<strong>roller\u00a0<\/strong>is gravity or\u00a0<strong>motorized.\u00a0<\/strong>In certain sections of the roller conveyor circuits, the movement can be free turning by gravity, or\u00a0also\u00a0because they are at\u00a0some point of classification\u00a0or manipulation by workers.\u00a0Most of the roller conveyors are usually motorized to move goods by\u00a0traction.\u00a0These can be manufactured\u00a0for light, medium and heavy loads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The manufacture of the outer part of the roller, the cylinder, allows one more step to adapt the roller to each type of product.\u00a0The use of rubbers and different structures and shapes (for example, tapered rollers) ensure that the roller conveyor moves properly from packaged products (warehouses) to bulk products (for example in the food industry) in an optimal way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<strong>roller conveyors\u00a0<\/strong>are also used for\u00a0<strong>moving pallets,\u00a0<\/strong>where there are\u00a0also carriers of\u00a0<strong>rotating rollers for pallets\u00a0<\/strong>which allow redirection safely.\u00a0For lighter loads we also have\u00a0<strong>curved roller conveyors.\u00a0<\/strong>In addition to the rollers themselves, the\u00a0conveyors need accessory systems such as guides, safety systems and motion control systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0roller conveyors\u00a0are systems for the movement of goods that are used in a variety of industries and companies: aggregates companies, mining, recycling plants, warehouses and logistics centers, courier companies, supermarkets, airports and ports, companies fruit and vegetables, chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc. The basic structure of the roller conveyors is simple, some rollers placed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/how-do-roller-conveyors-work\/\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17616,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/17616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurotransis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}