Spiral conveyor

The retailer makes use of high mounted shoe-sorters throughout all of their centers. After the right products are picked and placed in totes, the sorters transport them to the next part of the process where they descend to a lower floor level. In the past they used uncontrolled gravity chutes to transfer their products down but the method did not meet their demanding quality standards; heavy totes tend to speed up and hit the lighter totes resulting in damaged or lost goods.

This problem called for a “controlled”-chute, a spiral conveyor designed to handle totes with care when lowering them.

The spiral conveyor specifically designed for jobs like these is the SpiralVeyor ToteLift. This spiral utilises a unique belt type that provides a significant amount of added grip on the totes when compared to standard spiral conveyors. By doing so, the totes will not slip even when running at higher speeds, with a small radius, and at steep inclines. This solution will always deliver a controlled flow of items and recovers more than 50% of the space from the old sliding chutes.