Stops

FATA Automation has manufactured Power and Free Chain Conveyor Systems for many years. FATA Automation has hundreds of systems installed across the world serving many industries. The Power and Free Conveyor System can deal with all required equipment movements, stopping, accumulating, lifting, lowering, transferring, switching path and storing.

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The following operations can be performed :

• Disengagement of any carrier from-the power chain with con­sequent stopping of the carrier
• Stopping of a number of carriers in succession, with auto­matic disengagement from the chain, obtained between the carriers themselves on straight or curved tracks on a horizontal plane
• Marshalling of carriers from one or more tracks and vice versa
• Passing from fast chain to slow chain and vice versa on one track only or at a convergence or divergence.

The disengagement of a carrier from the power chain is gen­erally effected by means of a station stop generally located on the P+F line where a carrier must be stopped (e.g. conver­gence of two lines, transfer from one line to another, stopping of the first carrier of an accumulation line).

The stopping of several carriers in succession is based on the patented FATA principle whereby the leading trolley of a car­rier comes in contact 'with the disengaging device of the trailing trolley of the preceding carrier. As long as the trailing trolley remains in contact with the leading trolley of the following carrier it cannot be dragged away by the chain pusher.