Drag Conveyor
Enclosed conveying routed around your process.
A custom enclosed route through the plant.
The Nutrimatics Drag Conveyor uses a washable stainless-steel design to move bulk material through an enclosed path, with the route, housing, inlets, discharges, cleaning access, and drive setup built around the customer's material and plant layout.
A major advantage over traditional belt conveying is reduced carryback. On belt conveyors, product can stick to the belt at the discharge, travel around the end, and fall out underneath, which often means catch trays, cleanup, and wasted product. A drag conveyor carries material inside an enclosed housing to the discharge, helping keep product where it belongs.
Routed around equipment, access, and cleaner discharge.
The conveyor path can be configured around columns, equipment, elevations, access areas, and multiple pickup or discharge points.
Housing, flights, discharge geometry, clean-out access, speed, construction, and material-contact details are selected around the material being handled, including how much product tends to stick, smear, break, or carry past a discharge point.
Enclosed movement with less product carryback.
The video shows a contained transfer path that moves product to the discharge inside the housing, reducing the belt-style problem of product riding around the end and dropping underneath.
What the build solves
Material-specific handling
Conveyor path, speed, flights, housing, and clean-out access are selected around the product.
Compact routing
Designed to move through constrained areas where straight or open conveyor layouts are not practical.
Enclosed transfer
Helps control product, dust, spillage, carryback, and housekeeping between process steps.
Less wasted product
Because material is dragged through an enclosed housing to the discharge, it avoids the common belt-conveyor issue where sticky product rides past the end, drops into trays, and becomes waste or cleanup.
Process integration
Inlet and discharge points can be positioned around upstream equipment, downstream equipment, and access needs.
Housing and access built around the material.
The frame, housing, access points, and discharge geometry are selected around product behavior, clean-out needs, and the route through the plant.
Specifications
- Construction
- Washable stainless-steel construction.
- Controls
- NEMA 4X control panel.
What we need to shape the build
- Material
- Product type, bulk density, flow behavior, fragility, and abrasiveness.
- Route
- Pickup points, discharge points, elevation changes, access constraints, and obstacles.
- Cleaning
- Clean-out access, sanitation, material-contact, and housekeeping requirements.
- Operation
- Capacity target, operating schedule, controls, utilities, and drive preferences.
Send the product, package, available space, target output, and upstream/downstream equipment. We will design the machine around the line.
Ready to discuss your Drag Conveyor?
Send us a description of your requirements and limiting parameters, and we'll shape the machine around the real line.