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Established in 1993, Metzgar is a high-quality ball transfer conveyor manufacturer. Whether your project requires one section or thousands of sections, Metzgar can help you figure out a way to be more productive. Metzgar offers a full line of individual machines designed to fit your individual needs and are based on 3 concepts vital to customer satisfaction: economy, versatility & dependability.
Flexicon Corporation is a leader in the design and manufacture of ball transfer conveyors, in addition to other related custom-engineered, integrated plant-wide equipment that transports, discharges, fills, weighs, blends, delivers and/or feeds a broad range of substances. Flexicon offers a broad range of reliable, high performance solutions constructed to meet all of its customer's standards.
Custom solutions for vertical conveying needs, Portec spiral lift conveyors begin where straight conveyors end. We offer equipment such as belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and vertical conveyors. Our Power Belt Curves, Spiral Lifts®, Spiral Chutes, Merges, Power Faced Diverters & other Specialty Conveyors are ideal for elevational and directional conveying, merging and diverging.
Since 1919, Jervis B. Webb Company has had a reputation for developing the most reliable and durable ball transfer conveyors in the industry. Jervis has developed, manufactured, installed and serviced equipment for thousands of customers from a wide range of major industries. Please contact Jervis with any questions you may have or visit their website for full product and service equipment.
Vac-U-Max is a premier manufacturer of quality ball transfer conveyors among other similar products and services. Vac-U-Max produces its equipment to handle small parts and heavy metal powders. With the help of Vac-U-Max's solutions, your product can move from point A to B with nothing in the way to hinder its movement. Vac-U-Max machinery is sold worldwide. Please call today.
At Unex, we design and manufacture gravity products to meet a variety of unit handling applications from the manufacturing floor to the retail store. Our ball transfer conveyors are available in many different sizes and materials. We are always staying innovative and have over twenty patents in the industry. The main business at Unex is providing carton flow solutions for order picking operations.
Equipment Roundup & Manufacturing designs, manufactures and installs quality ball transfer conveyors and more for a wide range of valued customers. ERM is familiar with a variety of sizes and complexities and its experienced professionals and state-of-the-art technologies can "get it done." Please contact ERM today with any questions or visit their website for full product descriptions.
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Ball Transfer Conveyors
Within Ball Transfer Conveyors, each ball sits atop smaller balls, which are encased in a cup and may hold about 50 pounds at a time. Ball transfer conveyors may stand alone as a transfer unit between conveyors or a table. Ball transfer tables are used at workstations for rotating the products being manufactured in any direction. They may also serve as a component in a large conveyor handling system. Presses, guillotines, assembly lines, warehouses, factories, manufacturing and packaging facilities and The Postal Service all use ball transfer conveyors, especially when the products being moved need to rotate or turn easily. They may be easily washed down, and are chemical, water and erosion resistant.
Ball transfer conveyors utilize metallic balls in order to facilitate the material handling process. Because the products and packages that ball transfer conveyors move tend to be extremely heavy, the metal balls are commonly manufactured from steel that is often alloyed, case-hardened or treated with black oxide finish for desired characteristics such as increased strength and weight capacity. The balls and casings are easily replaceable and assembled in rails, which may be arranged in different patterns, depending on the specific application and designated route of the transfer system. A circle in the middle allows rotating during transfer, and the ball direction may change directions by forming an L shape. Ball transfer conveyors that have many balls close together are better-suited for moving heavier objects. The balls are also mounted differently from conveyor to conveyor, and some of the many different mounting styles include: stud, flange, machine press, pipe, round, disk, bolt down and press-in mountings. Ball transfer conveyor systems offer smooth transfer of objects without much friction, which decreases the possibility of wear. Although some manual labor is required, workers simply have to move the boxes and products along without using much force.
