Glossary of Terms
ACCUMULATING CONVEYOR:
Any conveyor designed to allow collection (accumulation) of material. May be roller, live roller, belt or gravity conveyors.
ALLIGATOR LACING:
Lacing attached to the belt with a hammer.
AXLE:
A non-rotating shaft on which wheels or rollers are mounted.
BACK PRESSURE:
The amount of force applied to a package to stop the package or
collection of packages.
BAG FLATTENER:
A mounting assembly used to hold one conveyor upside down over another
conveyor in order to squeeze or flatten the product.
BALL TABLE:
A group of ball transfers over which flat surface objects may be moved
in any direction.
BALL TRANSFER:
A device in which a larger ball is mounted and retained on a
hemispherical face of small balls.
BARE PULLEY:
A pulley that does not have the surface of its face covered (or lagged).
BEARING:
A machine part in or on which a shaft, axle, pin or other part rotates.
BED:
That part of a conveyor upon which the load rests or slides while being
conveyed.
BED LENGTH:
Length of bed sections only required to make up conveyor excluding
pulleys, etc., that may be assembled at ends.
BED WIDTH:
Refers to the overall width of the bed section.
BELT:
A flexible band placed around two or more pulleys for the purpose of
transmitting motion, power or materials from one point to another.
BELT SCRAPER:
A blade or brush caused to bear against the moving conveyor belt for the
purpose of removing material sticking to the conveyor belt.
BELT SPEED:
The length of belt, which passes a fixed point within a given time. It
is usually expressed in terms of 'feet per minute'.
BETWEEN RAIL WIDTH:
(BR) referred to as the distance between the conveyor frame rails on a
roller bed, live roller or gravity type conveyor. Also referred to as
(BF) Between Frame.
BOOSTER CONVEYOR:
Any type of powered conveyor used to regain elevation lost in gravity
roller or wheel conveyor lines.
BRAKE MOTOR:
A device usually mounted on a motor shaft between motor and reducer with
means to engage automatically when the electric current is cut off or
fails.
BRAKE ROLLERS:
Air or mechanically operated brakes used underneath roller conveyor to
slow down or stop packages being conveyed.
BUTT COUPLING:
Angles or plates designed to join conveyor sections together.
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