Slider Bed Conveyors
Fluent Slider Bed Conveyors Are Specifically Designed To Process Lightweight Materials & Recyclables Like OCC, ONP, PET, HDPE, Glass, E-Waste & More.
Slider Bed Conveyor Series Overview
Fluent SB Series of Conveyors are engineered with industry leading 3D CAD software and manufactured with precision (tolerances and standards). This series comes in standard and custom widths and lengths. Standard roller chain conveyor widths include 36″, 48″ 60”, 72″, 84”, 96”, 108” & 120”. Lower Horizontal lengths come in standard sizes of 10 feet, 15 feet 20 feet, 25 feet and 30 feet as well as any custom lower horizontal length to best match project specifications. The incline angles range from 25 degrees to 35 degrees depending on the application, material, baler requirements and building specifications. The standard chain sizes include 3 inch rollers with a 6 or 9 inch pitch, 4 & 5 inch roller with a 9 inch pitch. The frame is made of 3/16″ steel rectangular tubing, 1/4″ steel pan side walls, 1/4” steel rectangular tubing for supports & 25# – 30# rail track for chain support. The RC Series is MIG welded with certified welders and validated with a seamless QA process for overall structural integrity.
The Fluent RC Conveyors are sand blasted prior to paint, connected with grade 8 hardware (resist corrosion and increase strength), assembled and test run for over 10 hours prior to shipping. This series features industry leading components which include: rubber combo belts, apron pan belts, double beaded apron pan, z pan belts, hinged steel belts, motors, flame cut & hardened sprockets, electric oilers, coped angled cleats (2″, 3″, 4″ & 5″), side guards, bottom guards, e-stops, direct shaft mounted drives, cold rolled shafts and more.
This heavy duty series of conveyor is engineered and manufactured for the most extreme applications: wet, dry, high temps, e-waste, OCC, ONP, MSW, single stream, C&D, mining, biofuel, scrap, tire, stover, bagasse and more.
* We offer custom roller chain conveyors to meet the specific requirements for a wide variety of specialized applications (metering conveyors, high impact loading conveyors, reversing conveyors, etc.).
**This series of conveyors is often found feeding shredders, granulators, pulpers, balers, conveyors and sort stations for industry leading manufactures like Vecoplan, SSI, Granu-Tech, Ameri-Shred, Hustler Conveyors, CP Manufacturing, BHS, Harris Equipment, International Baler Corporation, American Baler, Excel, Marathon, Balemaster, G-Baler, Sierra, IPS and more.
Fluent Conveyors can offer any color required to meet your project specifications. Please let a Fluent Conveyors employee know the RAL number for the paint as well as the paint manufacturer (Sherwin-Williams, PPG, Valspar, Diamond Vogel etc.).
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DIRECT SHAFT MOUNTED MOTORS & GEARBOXES:
Fluent Conveyors specs only premium components to complete our equipment and provide a high-quality solution. Fluent Specs Nord Gear Drive units for their quality reputation and exemplary products. Fluent Conveyors can use any specific manufacturer of motors/gearboxes upon request.
COLD ROLLED SHAFTS:
Fluent Shafts are made from cold rolled steel rod and turned to the tightest tolerances in the industry. Every shaft is made custom to fit your specific conveyor.
HEAVY DUTY BEARINGS:
Fluent Conveyors uses bearings that boast cast iron housing, wide inner races providing for larger load capacity than standard duty, B type seals for smooth function and protection against the elements, and the bearings are sized to greatly exceed L10 life hours for the machine load.
FLAME TREATED & HARDENED SPROCKETS:
Fluent Conveyors uses abrasive applications with high shock loading. The inherent strength and flame hardened teeth of these sprockets provide maximum service in the most severe environments. The versatility of flame cut sprockets allows for specialized designs for a variety of customer requirements.
Transfer Roller Chain Belt Conveyor
The Transfer Roller Chain Conveyor ensures smooth operations. It is made to last with easy maintenance, ensuring your system is never lagging.
Fluent Conveyor’s Above Ground Transfer Roller Chain Belt Conveyors are found in robust applications and best utilized to transfer bulk materials spanning long distances and different elevations. This model delivers exactly what the market requires for high volume rigid and abrasive material as well as high-temperature and other extreme applications.
Our conveyors are extremely durable and built for high-performance that stands the test of time. All designs are made to order and customizable. This model is available in inclined, flat, L and S shapes to fit all types of applications. This model primarily used to transfer material from a “feed” conveyor or piece of equipment to another conveyor or piece of equipment.
Uniquely designed to transform your systems into one sleek, seamless operation.
The Above Ground Roller Chain Conveyor
The above ground roller chain conveyor is created to drastically increase productivity and keep your business running at an optimal pace.
This series of conveyors is the most robust series of conveyors we offer. This model delivers exactly what the market requires for high volume rigid and abrasive material as well as high-temperature and other extreme applications. All designs are made to order and customizable. You will always get the perfect machinery for your unique needs.
This model is available in inclined, flat, L and S shapes to fit all types of applications. This model is guarded with expanded metal on the lower horizontal (loading area) to allow for visual inspections of clean-liness and function. Flawless engineering for flawless performance.
Collaborate
At Fluent Conveyors, we look for partners over clients. Your success is our success. Every step along the way, through dynamic collaboration, we ensure high-end experience from pre-sales engineering to install.The process starts with a detailed system design meeting in which fluent sales and engineering staff complete a pre-project kick off call with our customer to gather all necessary info and gain a detailed understanding of their specific needs. The Engineering team designs a unique solution while working with each customer to ensure accuracy and detailed approval drawings. Ensuring your vision comes to life.
Create
Our open creative process ensures you’re always in the driver’s seat. We blend technical expertise with visionary thinking to ensure your expectations are not only met, but surpassed. Fluent Conveyors uses leading edge 3D CAD and automation tools to ensure a process that puts the customer first, provides a speedy turnaround time, error free engagement and a better overall customer experience. End result: engineered product for your specific application type and unique needs delivered in hours – not days or weeks.
Convey
Our processes ensure 100’s of customers across the World precise, efficient, and smooth operations. Each conveyor is tested, validated and approved to verify structural and mechanical operability. It’s just that simple.
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
We’re here to transform complex problems into simple solutions. Structural analysis gives Fluent Engineers instant access to solve complex engineering problems. These tools give the Fluent Engineering Team the ability to make better, faster design decisions. With the finite element analysis (FEA) tools the Fluent Engineering Team can customize and automate solutions for your unique application and parameterize them to analyze multiple design scenarios. Optimizing your systems to level up your performance.
STRENGTH ANALYSIS
Upgrading to the highest-grade machinery means giving your business the strongest systems possible. The strength of components is a key requirement in understanding a product’s performance, lifecycle and possible failure modes. Max conveyor loads, thermal stress, bolt tension, pressure conditions, belt chain pull, and rotational acceleration are just some of the factors that will dictate strength requirements for materials and designs. Fluent Conveyors Engineering Team leverages software to predict the strength required for maximum stresses under full loads. We only give you the strongest machinery to make sure you never have to stress about its performance.
REAL-LIFE IMPACT ANALYSIS
Our Fluent Conveyors Engineering Team designs for real-life impact. We use cutting edge impact analysis testing to calculate the forces between the material being conveyed and the conveyor as well as the resultant deformation or damage. Ensuring each conveyor is designed from the ground up to handle the real-life stresses for specific materials and applications. Engineered with grit for years of impact.
DURABILITY & ENDURANCE
Designed to endure the test of time and position you as the King of longevity. Fluent Conveyors aligns all engineering processes to ensure all manufactured conveyors are tested for durability. Building durable products is one of the main focuses of Fluent Conveyors. Fluent designs each machine to reduce warranty costs and increasing reliability. Fluent uses our modeling software to understand how designs will behave over time as load cycles increase to avoid unexpected failures and warranty costs. We plan for all the worst case scenarios, so you don’t have to worry about them.
Getting Down & Dirty Pit Roller Chain Conveyor
Your instincts are right... You’re looking at the most robust series of conveyors we offer. Top-of-the-line engineering created with the industry’s highest manufacturing tolerances, our advanced RC Series delivers exactly what the market requires.
The Fluent Roller Chain Series is made to play in the big leagues. Fluent Conveyor’s Pit Infeed Roller Chain Belt Conveyors are found in robust applications and best utilized for new and existing pits.
This model delivers exactly what the market requires for high volume rigid and abrasive material as well as high-temperature and other extreme applications. All designs are made to order and customizable. This model requires 3/8-inch-thick or 1⁄2 -inch-thick pit plates and material is typically fed onto the conveyor with a skid steer, bobcat, front-end loader etc. Only the best machinery, transforming your systems and business.
Fluent Conveyors offers complete and customized heavy duty discharge and transition hoppers for both new and existing pieces of equipment. Our discharge hoppers (provided with the correct CAD files) seamlessly meet the bolt holes on all horizontal baler manufacturers including: American Baler, Harris Baler, International Baler, G- Baler, Harmony, Balemaster, Maren, Enterprise, Bollegraf and more!
The Fluent Engineering team is also well versed in working directly with other OEM equipment: shredders, conveyors, trommels, sort systems, hammermills and more. Key manufactures include SSI Shredding, Hustler Conveyors, Vecoplan, Karl Schmidt, Untha and more!
Fluent Conveyors is 100% focused on customer safety for all their equipment. This is one of the most important parts of our process. If your team has any internal safety requirements for existing equipment we want to ensure we design our systems to match or exceed those requirements.
We do not authorize removing safety guarding, conveyor safety switches, cords, controls etc. You must consult your local dealer or our engineering department to adjust anything regarding our equipment. If not followed, your warranty becomes void at that time.
Safety offerings include: dead man plates, e-stop / pull cords, protective guarding, manuals etc.
Please Note: The Fluent Conveyors Roller Chain model is extremely powerful and can cause great harm. All maintenance must be performed by a trained and authorized employee or dealer. Before performing any service please lock out / tag out ("Do Not Operate") the electrical inputs to our equipment.
Review CEMA or OSHA to review current safety requirements for conveyors and related equipment.
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Detailed & Customized Mechanical Engineering
FLUENT CONVEYOR DESIGN GUIDELINES
Fluent Conveyors Roller Chain Series Conveyors are designed with cutting edge software to be ahead of the curve. Giving you an edge above the rest. All machinery is validated using premium 3D CAD software and manufactured to industry leading tolerances and standards. After completion of a design, the engineering team releases to quality assurance, allowing secondary engineers to validate critical dimensions, calculations and manufacturability. After initial and secondary engineering approvals, projects are released to purchasing and the manufacturing facility by the lead manufacturing engineer. Our experts only approve the highest caliber work to ensure you’re working with nothing but the best.
FLUENT CONVEYOR MANUFACTURING GUIDELINES
Fluent Conveyors Roller Chain Series conveyors are made in innovative facilities to equip you to level up your business. With all the industry leading equipment and processes, Fluent Conveyors production team has over 100 years of combined experience paired with a facility of more than 85,000 square feet. The core facility has a paint booth, 40,000 square feet of dedicated assembly, 6 – welding stations, CNC fabrication equipment, 10 – overhead cranes and more. Parts are cut/machined on CNC Routed machines and bent on CNC Brakes for the best in industry tolerances. Every weld is tacked and re-measured for accuracy then completed by the staff of certified welders. Once manufactured, every conveyor passes through a 3-step finishing process ending with high grade paint. Ensuring you’re working with smart, flawless machinery.
CONVEYOR TESTING OVERVIEW
All conveyors are delivered to you ready for work. Assembled and released to a detailed quality assurance checklist to make sure your machinery can hit the ground running. This includes key validations such as; weld examination, sub-assembly QC, 10 hours of tested run time, head shaft height validation, frame levelness, frame width validation, overall height/length, belt speed, belt tracking, belt and conveyor alignment, electrical requirements, incline and nose over angle verification and all other major specifications. Making sure your machinery is set up for long term success.
SHIPPING OVERVIEW
We ship the smartest way possible, to make your job easy. Fluent Conveyors Product shipments are carefully planned in CAD software to be loaded in an organized, space saving, and safe manner ensuring that all products arrive on-site the same as when they left our facility. Loose items are boxed and marked, assembled parts and components tightened to endure the rigors of freight and shipping. We’re here to make sure every step of the process is seamless.
As well as producing bespoke conveyor systems, we also supply custom replacement belts and parts to ensure no client sees their assembly line stay offline for an extended period of time. From replacement motors to sprockets, everything is covered if a client comes across a failing element of their conveyor system.
Sadly, it’s inevitable your clients will face some type of issue with their conveyor system at some point. Even with Fluent Conveyors’ best equipment in place, conveyors are going to suffer from wear and tear due to their demanding nature. However, being able to offer a solution at any time will be appreciated by your clients.
Are You Ready To Schedule Some Time With The Fluent Conveyors Team? Great!
Our Process Is Typically Very Lean & Detailed! We Prefer Not To Waste Our Customers Time! Engineering Time & Revisions Takes A Considerable Amount of Time For Both Customers & Our Engineering Team.
Please Contact Us If the Slider Bed Conveyor Specifications Match What You Need & You Are Comfortable With:
- Price Can Range From $15,000 - $60,000+ Per Conveyor
- Lead Time of 7 – 10 Weeks (From Down Payment & Signed Approval Drawings)
- Pre-Payment on Engineering Time if The Project is Complex
- 50% Down-Payment, 40% 2 Weeks Prior To Ship, 10% Net 30 Upon Install
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What options are available for slider bed conveyors?
Slider bed conveyors are configurable with many different options and layouts.
Fluent Conveyors slider bed conveyors are offered with most of the options you will find throughout the industry. We offer both load depths from several feet deep in pits to no side walls for sorting. Fluent has slider bed frame configurations designed for carrying broken glass and troughed for bulk material handling.
Our conveyors are configurable with nearly any safety option you can imagine from full safety guarding to halo system, e-stops, speed sensors, pull cords, motor brakes and monitoring cameras.
Other additional options are photo eyes, wash down duty, non-ferrous segments for magnetic sorting, magnetic head pulleys, transition plates chutes and hoppers, material sensors, belt scrapers, cleaning brushes, pneumatic paddles and diverters and more. Fluent is happy to provide robust custom solutions. If you know of something you want on your conveyor then please call our sales team to discuss.
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What is a slider belt conveyor?
Slider bed belt conveyors are conveyors where the belt of the machine rides directly on a solid steel surface. The term “slider” refers to the belting “sliding” directly on the frame when driven from the head or tail pulley.
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What materials can be used on a slider bed conveyor?
Slider bed conveyors are used in many different markets for moving food, pharmaceuticals, garbage, recyclables, tires, concrete, e-waste, packages and more.
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How many tones can a slider bed conveyor hold?
This is a very open-ended question. All manufacturers have different load capacities for their frames, belts etc.
If you are looking for a specific result, please contact our sales team with all the information on your application to see if our machines can handle your capacity.
*Please note, we will require your budget to proceed past the initial call.
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What options are available for slider bed conveyors?
Slider bed conveyors are configurable with many different options and layouts.
Fluent Conveyors slider bed conveyors are offered with most of the options you will find throughout the industry. We offer both load depths from several feet deep in pits to no side walls for sorting. Fluent has slider bed frame configurations designed for carrying broken glass and troughed for bulk material handling.
Our conveyors are configurable with nearly any safety option you can imagine from full safety guarding to halo system, e-stops, speed sensors, pull cords, motor brakes and monitoring cameras.
Other additional options are photo eyes, wash down duty, non-ferrous segments for magnetic sorting, magnetic head pulleys, transition plates chutes and hoppers, material sensors, belt scrapers, cleaning brushes, pneumatic paddles and diverters and more. Fluent is happy to provide robust custom solutions. If you know of something you want on your conveyor then please call our sales team to discuss.
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What is a slider belt conveyor?
Slider bed belt conveyors are conveyors where the belt of the machine rides directly on a solid steel surface. The term “slider” refers to the belting “sliding” directly on the frame when driven from the head or tail pulley.
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What materials can be used on a slider bed conveyor?
Slider bed conveyors are used in many different markets for moving food, pharmaceuticals, garbage, recyclables, tires, concrete, e-waste, packages and more.
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How many tones can a slider bed conveyor hold?
This is a very open-ended question. All manufacturers have different load capacities for their frames, belts etc.
If you are looking for a specific result, please contact our sales team with all the information on your application to see if our machines can handle your capacity.
*Please note, we will require your budget to proceed past the initial call.