Alpine Conveyor System KE 50

This is an alpine conveyor with friction chain, which is a very common solution in manufacturing industry. Normally used to make elevators or buffers for products.

An alpine conveyor consists of a flexible chain that goes upwards or downwards in levels. Very useful if the allowed footprint allows a footprint that is narrow in one direction and long in the other direction.

The slopes of an alpine normally varies between 5-15 degrees. At 5 degrees no friction chain is needed. Nothing slips on 5 degrees, which is very good for making space efficient, accumulating product buffers.

On 7 degrees most products slip a little. Every product above 7 degrees will need a friction chain.

In this case, the slopes are 12 degrees which seems to be the steepest possible with Bambu TPU 95A HF. A softer TPU will probably have higher friction and allow for steeper slopes. The higher the product, the longer the alpine needs to be and/or steeper angle.

This conveyor is suitable for educational purposes, prototypes, home projects and maybe even for exhibitions rigs for certain cases.

The entire assembly will be submitted in step format to make it easy to see in a CAD system how everything is assembled. The file name is: KE-0170.step. Of course traditional drawings and instructions are also in this manual.

Please watch the video below for a better understanding of the system: