Drawbridge Conveyor transfers pallets across crane aisle.
Press Release Summary:
Enabling conveyor line to cross AS/RS crane aisle, Drawbridge Conveyor allows products to bypass storage area, even while conveying through it, and go directly to shipping dock. It can be used in any area where transportation traffic is crossing material flow processes, and is compatible with 3-strand chain and chain driven live roller conveyors. Constructed of either mild steel or stainless steel, unit pivots to nearly vertical position in approximately 30 sec.
Original Press Release:
New Drawbridge Conveyor from Westfalia Technologies, Inc. Enables a Conveyor Line Across an AS/RS Crane Aisle
YORK, Pa., September 8, 2008 - Westfalia Technologies, Inc. has introduced a unique Drawbridge Conveyor which enables a conveyor line to cross an Automated Storage and Retrieval System crane aisle. These conveyors showcase Westfalia's unsurpassed engineering capabilities and allow products to bypass a storage area, even while conveying through it, directly to the shipping dock. In our Automated Storage and Retrieval System, the conveyor is used to transfer pallets across the crane aisle.
As Juergen Conrad, Director of Sales explains, "Even when lowered, cranes can run in the aisle because sensors on the cranes tell them to avoid the "gray area" the Drawbridge Conveyor uses. Plus, the Drawbridge Conveyor is fast - it pivots to a nearly vertical position in approximately 30 seconds."
Westfalia's Drawbridge Conveyors can be used in any area where transportation traffic is crossing the material flow processes, and is compatible with the company's 3-Strand Chain and Chain Driven Live Roller conveyors. It is the newest of a full line of innovative conveyors Westfalia designs and manufactures. These specialty conveyors can be constructed of either mild steel or stainless steel for durable, long-lasting performance. With standardized designs, the conveyors can be easily integrated with other material handling equipment and can be adapted to the customer's specific needs.
Westfalia Technologies also offers more than a dozen types of bag handling conveyors and eight pallet handling conveyors in fixed-direction, change-of-direction and vertical reciprocating configurations.
About Westfalia Technologies, Inc. (www.WestfaliaUSA.com)
Westfalia Technologies, Inc. is a leader in providing material handling equipment and logistical software for plants, warehouses and distribution centers. Our expertise combining software (Savanna.NET® WMS) development with machinery manufacturing (AS/RS, Pallet Flow Storage, Conveyors, etc.) means Westfalia is able to deliver turn-key solutions to meet each client's specific needs with unsurpassed quality and control. To find out more about our products please visit www.WestfaliaUSA.com.
