Production floor level changes
Transfer compatible products between conveyors at different elevations.
Vertical product transfer
Industrial Elevator & Lowerator Systems
Purpose-designed vertical transfer equipment for moving compatible products or loads between conveyor levels.
Overview
What this system does
Industrial elevators and lowerators transfer products vertically when a horizontal conveyor cannot bridge the required level change. The lifting principle may use a platform, carrier, cleat, bucket, gripper or other product-specific support. The equipment principle must be selected from the load and transfer duty rather than inferred from the word elevator.
Main applications
Machine feeding and discharge
Present products to elevated or recessed machinery with controlled transfer.
Vertical buffering
Use a suitable carrier or platform arrangement where intermediate buffering is required.
Space-constrained layouts
Use vertical movement to reduce long ramps or avoid obstructing floor-level traffic.
Operating principle
How it works
Industrial Elevator / Lowerator
Industrial elevators and lowerators transfer products vertically when a horizontal conveyor cannot bridge the required level change. The lifting principle may use a platform, carrier, cleat, bucket, gripper or other product-specific support. The equipment principle must be selected from the load and transfer duty rather than inferred from the word elevator.
A simplified illustration of the motion — not to scale and not a performance simulation.
Available configurations
Possible arrangements
Platform elevator
Lift table or platform for compatible discrete loads.
Continuous-flow elevator
Carrier-based continuous transfer where the product and duty support it.
Lowerator
Controlled downward transfer between line levels.
Special-purpose lift
Custom carrier, gripper or transfer concept after product assessment.
Technical design basis
Technical characteristics
These items identify the information used to engineer this equipment. Numerical limits appear only where the referenced catalogue supports them; other values are confirmed for each project.
The ENTRA gallery includes two elevator references. They are shown as general elevator equipment and are not labelled as side-gripper systems. No rated load or travel speed is assumed.
| Lift height & travel | Defined from floor levels, machine interfaces and installation envelope. |
|---|---|
| Rated load | Established from product mass, carrier mass, dynamic effects and safety design. |
| Cycle / throughput | Calculated from travel, loading, unloading, dwell and control sequence. |
| Safety functions | Defined by risk assessment, access conditions and applicable machinery requirements. |
Engineering considerations
What ENTRA needs to engineer the right solution
A useful proposal starts with operating conditions and interfaces. Final sizing is confirmed by engineering review.
Load and carrier
Product dimensions, mass, centre of gravity, support points, carrier geometry and retention.
Vertical travel
Lift height, infeed and outfeed elevations, cycle rate, dwell and transfer sequence.
Safety
Risk assessment, guarding, access doors, interlocks, overload protection and safe maintenance access.
Controls
Position sensing, sequencing, VFD/servo requirements, machine handshake and fault recovery.
Photographs
From ENTRA's project gallery
Captions identify the equipment shown; a photo is not a claim that every image is a completed installation of the exact configuration described.
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