Accumulation Conveyor Systems Manufacturer in Chennai Tamil Nadu Accumulation conveyor systems come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from the simple to the highly sophisticated. Stripped of the jargon, they share one core purpose: they prevent products falling off the end of the conveyor, whilst still allowing products near the beginning of the conveyor to carry on moving... Typical Industries Warehouse & Logistics | Parcel & Packing | Food Manufacture and Processing | General Production Description Provides one or more “stop” zones to bring products to a halt Accumulation Conveyor Systems come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, from the simple to the highly sophisticated. Stripped of the jargon, they share one core purpose: they prevent products falling off the end of the conveyor, whilst still allowing products near the beginning of the conveyor to carry on moving. In it’s simplest form, a Slat Chain conveyor might have a small length of unpowered gravity rollers at its terminating point. Products move down the Slat, and are ‘pushed’ onto the roller area where they coast to a halt. Subsequent products arrive onto the rollers and ‘push’ the first product further down the roller area. Of course, the system described above cannot carry on forever. Eventually products will pile up in the accumulation area such until there is no room for the next product. In this scenario an additional sensor can be incorporated to stop the entire system once the accumulation area is at capacity. A more sophisticated accumulation conveyor systems is a powered roller conveyor whereby each roller has a ‘slipping clutch’. As a product reaches the end of the conveyor, a barrier prevents it from moving forwards. Friction between the stationary product and the turning rollers beneath it causes the roller clutch to slip, and the roller stops turning. This is a very flexible system, as the entire conveyor is now an automatic accumulation zone.