Harry Harlick was an institution in the conveyor industry, and an inspiration in the founding of FloStor. Harry prepared the following information as a training manual for engineers at Conveyors & Casters (Hamerslag Equipment), which closed in 1985.

Significant advances have been achieved in conveyor technology since this manual first appeared, though many of the basics remain constant. This paper is provided as an introduction to the scope of factors considered by the FloStor professional sales engineers in specifying conveyors.

The package conveyor business has been in existence for almost one hundred years.

Material handling engineering, in an over-simplified, basically, consists of determining "how a product should be moved from one place to another, within the shortest allowable period of time, for the least cost and with the least amount of manual effort".

We hope that this publication will help to guide you to the best possible solution to the many material handling problems, which you may encounter.

It is extremely difficult to put in to writing the many years of problem solving experienced by "old-timers" in this industry, no two solutions are identical. This publication will merely give you an idea of the uses of the many different types of conveyors available, and, it will be up to you to sift through to determine the best conveyor for your particular application.

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