Moving I-Beam
Moving I-Beam
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Hello all,
Our settup at our facility has a set of gravity rollers on either side of a band saw table. The higher-ups have tasked me with adding some sort of locamotion to the feeding rollers.
To get the largest range of grab and push i was thinking of converting the gravity rollers to a belt system. Most belt data that i find is all particle type or box type of material movement. Has anyone heard of using a belt for this purpose, if not what would be the draw backs.
Our settup at our facility has a set of gravity rollers on either side of a band saw table. The higher-ups have tasked me with adding some sort of locamotion to the feeding rollers.
To get the largest range of grab and push i was thinking of converting the gravity rollers to a belt system. Most belt data that i find is all particle type or box type of material movement. Has anyone heard of using a belt for this purpose, if not what would be the draw backs.





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Has anyone had success retrofitting a set of gravity rollers with chain drive?
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If you need some info on designing these type conveyors buy this standard:
http://www
OmniMetalcraft sells rollers if you want to buy them:
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There is even a picture on the webpage that illustrates the sprockets welded on pulley shell.
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Looking around i found another company that retrofits rollers as well.
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Seems like loading something like pipe on a belt conveyor with an overhead crane will still require a choker that has to be pulled out from between belt and pipe. Conveyor rollers make this task simple.
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Trade the saw to your friendly local machinery dealer, and buy the one you actually need.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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