Infeed or outfeed
An infeed chute or hopper delivers bulk product onto the belt. An outfeed chute takes it off into a bin, a container or the next piece of equipment.
01Engineered solution
Chutes & hoppers
Bulk product has to get onto a conveyor, and off it again, without spilling or needing someone to guide it. Chutes and hoppers are the simplest and cheapest way to do both.
Custom hopper
02What they are
Built to the conveyor, not bolted on around it.
Infeed and outfeed chutes and hoppers can be added to the conveyor platforms to handle bulk product entering or leaving a line. They are an easy and economical way to deal with the two points where product is most likely to spill or stall.
Each one is made to fit the conveyor it serves, so it mounts without modifications to the conveyor itself. That matters when the chute is added later to a line already running.
Material follows the environment
Chutes and hoppers are available in stainless steel or aluminium depending on the application requirements, so a washdown line and a general industrial line are not forced into the same specification.
03Specification
Three things to decide.
Short list, because a chute is a simple component. Getting these right is most of the job.
Stainless or aluminium
Stainless where the line is washed down or the product is food contact; aluminium where it is not, and weight or cost matters more.
Made to the conveyor
Each chute or hopper is custom made so it mounts to the conveyor without any modification to the conveyor frame.
- Mounting
- No conveyor modification required
- Fit
- Custom made to each conveyor
- Materials
- Stainless steel or aluminium
- Use
- Bulk product infeed and outfeed
04Related solutions
Often specified alongside.
Chutes sit at the boundary between a conveyor and whatever is either side of it.
Tell us what is going on and off the belt.
Give us the product, the rate and the conveyor it has to mount to, and Roarer can make the chute or hopper to fit it.
Discuss your application