Spiral conveyors have wide applications in bakery industry . Main advantage is that it occupies less floor space . Spiral conveyors can be used for cooling , shifting finished goods , cartons , bags and boxes .Acts like elevator or lowerator .
It could be installed after packing section for finished good cartons or near warehouse to shift CBBS ,Laminates and Wrappers to and from mezzanine floors . Span of conveyor could be between 8 ft - 4 ft and angle of inclination of the conveyor is maintained between 9 deg - 11 deg so that material does not slip .
Conveyor could be slat conveyor , roller conveyors or belt conveyors as per requirement . Spiral conveyor has a single motor drive hence saving in energy . Spiral conveyor manufacturer normally assemble it at their fabrication shop and ship them as pre- fabricated way easy to assemble mode . Spiral conveyor can travel in both direction ie from bottom to top or from top to bottom .Smaller bakeries have lot to gain from such conveyors.
