Discontinuous conveyor

Discontinuous conveyors are part of a conveyor technology system that transports bulk or piece goods and are assigned to the internal transport systems.

In contrast to continuous conveyors (e.g. conveyor belt, transport fan, scraper chain conveyor), they do not convey continuously, but only at individual intervals, often only when goods are being transported. Discontinuous conveyors can also have empty runs (e.g. due to a demand-independent cyclic operation). Loading and unloading can lead to so-called downtimes during which the system comes to a standstill. The discontinuous conveyor is only loaded and unloaded during these downtimes, which can only be carried out at certain points with the load-bearing devices provided for this purpose. The drive of such conveyors is designed for intermittent or short-term operation. Discontinuous conveyors are transport systems that can be used floor-free or floor-bound, rail-free or rail-bound. In contrast to the continuous conveyors, they are mostly operated manually, so that the operating costs they cause are higher than those of the continuous conveyors. Their advantage, however, is that they are extremely flexible in their use. In this way, the transport tasks performed by you and the performance can be changed and increased.

The transition to continuous conveyors is fluid with vibratory conveyors and step conveyors, as these continuously feed parts to the connected machine, but only work at intervals. Continuous conveyors can also be used as discontinuous conveyors in certain areas of application, e.g. B. when feeding cyclic machines with individual workpieces. The discontinuous conveyors are divided into fixed, rail-bound or rail-free means of transport.

Examples

• Floor-bound
  • Rail free
    • Automatic vehicle
    • Hand pallet truck
    • Electric pallet truck
    • Driverless transport systems (AGV)
    • Hovercraft
    • Handcarts
    • Electric carts
    • Motor vehicle (tractor, wagon, forklift )
    • Transfer car
    • Moving pallet truck
    • Storage and retrieval unit (without / with converter, curve-going)
  • Rail-bound
    • Operating railway
    • Rail car

• Corridor free
  • Trolley train
  • Cranes , e.g.
    • Bridge crane
    • Gantry crane
    • Jib crane
    • Tower crane
  • Electric monorail system (EMS)
  • Pneumatic tube system
  • Small container transport system

• Stationary
  • Elevator
  • Lifting platform and aerial work platform
  • Step conveyor

literature

• Dirk Jodin, Michael ten Hompel: Sorting and distribution systems, basics, structure, calculation and implementation. ISBN 3-540-29070-2 .
• Willibald A. Günther, Klaus Heptner: Technical innovations for logistics. ISBN 978-3-937711-546 .
• Heinrich Martin: Transport and warehouse logistics, planning, structure, control and costs of intralogistics systems. 6th edition. ISBN 3-8348-0168-2 , ISBN 978-3-8348-0168-5 .

See also

• Continuous conveyor
• Conveyor system

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Conveyor technology: Continuous conveyors and discontinuous conveyors. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .