Rotary conveyors automatically flip or rotate products on a conveyor belt in factories. They can flip products 180 or rotate them 360 degrees. Single station flippers are the most common type. Rotating conveyors are useful for accessing both sides of a product and changing its orientation.
A rotary conveyor is a device used to automatically flip, rotate or invert products as they travel along a conveyor belt. These machines are typically found in factories or manufacturing plants, where they are part of an assembly line system. Several types of rotary conveyors flip products along a horizontal axis so that other machines or workers can easily access the bottom of the item. Others simply rotate the product orientation along a vertical axis. A rotary conveyor can be designed to flip products 180 degrees or rotate them 360 degrees as needed.
The most common type of rotary conveyor is a single station flipper, which flips a product as it passes through the belt. As the web enters the flip station, the product is completely enclosed by the rotating transport mechanism, which circles the product top, bottom and both sides. A separate cylinder within the station rotates with the product inside, then stops rotating when the item has been flipped. The product can then continue to travel along the belt to other stations along the assembly line.
To understand the benefits of a rotating conveyor, consider a standard DVD player. As it moves along a conveyor belt, workers and machines must access both the top and bottom of the player to add various components and covers. Instead of manually picking each unit and flipping it, a rotating conveyor flips the unit to provide the necessary access. In this type of scenario, multiple rotary units can be used to flip products side-to-side at various points along the belt.
Another type of rotary conveyor simply lifts the object parallel to the belt surface, then rotates it along a vertical axis before placing it back on the belt. These units are known as ‘lift and rotate’ conveyors and are used to change the orientation of the product during various stages of assembly. For example, in a bottling plant, these machines could be used to rotate a case of bottles as it passes under a filling station so that all bottles can be filled without human intervention. These machines are also useful for orienting objects to one side of the belt or the other to align them with machinery or to maximize the efficiency of human workers.
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