The Pop-up flight, a patent-pending innovation from Ammeraal Beltech, which is represented locally by Rydell Industrial, offers a simple but effective modular solution to the problem of food losses on conveyor systems.
The Pop-up flight pops up at the foot of the conveyor incline to support the food as it moves up the elevator, holding it steady. Then, once the product has been successfully discharged, the flight pops down again so an automatic scraper can clean up the belt – especially helpful for clingy food products.
Products which have failed to discharge and remain on the belt on its return journey, and often then fall on to the packaging hall’s floor, are estimated to cost the food processing industry huge sums of money.
The Pop-up flight has been developed to stop these product losses, and to make it easy for companies to maintain high hygiene levels, without constantly having to sweep floors and hand-clean sticky belts.
Sirena Cold Stores in Denmark, for instance, has a shorter conveyor with a steep incline so its frozen fish product doesn’t have time to defrost during transportation. Using the Pop-up flight, the company has eliminated potential food losses due to multiple belt transfer points.
