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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