Performance Feeders

Vibratory Bowl feeders use vibration to move the parts across specialized orienting tooling for high production parts feeding and orienting.

• Efficient orienting of complex part geometries
• Capable of multi-lane feeding for high volume applications

Centrifugal feeders use a rotating bottom disc to move parts around the inside wall to an exit point where they exit to a track or tube.

• High Volume Feeding of parts with basic geometries and orienting needs
• Quiet

Flex feeders use a rotating bottom disc to move parts around and spread them apart in a pick area where a camera system identifies the part orientation and a robot picks the parts.

• Lower volume, high flexibility part feeding needs
• Quiet and gentle parts handling

Step feeders use elevating steps to move small amounts of parts up and out of bulk onto exit rails, vibratory tracks or conveyors for simple orienting and discharge.

• Medium volume applications for parts with simple geometry
• Quiet and gentle parts handling
• Integrated bulk storage

Drum feeders use a continuous rotating drum with flights inside to move small amounts of bulk parts up and over where they will fall onto exit rails or live feed tracks.

• Medium volume applications with simple geometry parts
• Quiet and gentle parts handling

Slant Disc feeders use a continuous rotating disc inside of a drum with a closed bottom. The disc has part profiles cut outs for the parts to drop into and then exit down and out the side wall of the drum into profile gravity tracks.

• High volume applications with simple geometry parts
• Quiet and gentle parts handling

Vibratory Hoppers use vibration to oscillate a tray which is below a suspended bind of bulk parts. The parts move gradually out on the tray and drop off the end and are usually used to supply bulk parts gradually to a feed system or batch process.

Elevating Pre-Feeders use a motorized belt with flights on it to pull small amounts of parts out of a bulk storage bind and up to a discharge point. The storage is able to be closer to the floor minimizing the need for lifting and dumping at higher elevations.

Hoist Elevators are motorized bulk container lift assist structures which allow for the dumping of bulk parts into hoppers located over the top of feeders.

Belt hoppers use a motorized belt to move forward a bulk supply of parts from a suspended bind. The parts move out through a metering gate and discharge typically into a feed system or bulk process. The hopper is quite and offers a positive motion of the bulk parts regardless of bulk weight effects.

Custom conveyors can be configured in many widths, lengths and with different types of belt or chain to move parts or containers from a loading location to a destination.

Feeder Sub-Systems are the combination and integration of several components tied together and under a control system.