Apron conveyor

Apron conveyor is a conveyor in which the goods are conveyed on individual plates. The plates can be guided in splitters or moved by individual drives. If the plates are connected to each other to form a chain hoist, this is referred to as an apron conveyor, a type of link conveyor. Link belt conveyors consist of two parallel, vertically guided chain strands with support elements mounted between them. Depending on the support element, a distinction is made between slat conveyors, link conveyors, etc. Due to the parallel chain strands, these conveyors are not able to negotiate curves, so that distribution conveyors based on them, such as shoe sorters or support shoe sorters, can only be realized in a linear structure.

Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML