Conveyor Systems

Basics

• A list of various methods of moving (non-human) stuff from point a to point b
• Mainly useful for moving dry fuels, various feedstocks, and final parts around

List

Conveyor Belt

• Covered in the Open Source Conveyor Belt Construction Set
• Flexible conveyor belt

Bucket conveyor

• Bucketchain, like the mining stuff?

Chain conveyor

• Assuming liuke an Aerial Ropeway type thing?
• Or a dual chain + bracket based system?
• merge with? Drag conveyor

Electric track vehicle system

• confusing name (not common?)
• VERY cool system, like roller coaster wheel mechanisms, or like slot cars, in the floor/walls/celing for moving stuff around a building
• Supposedly used in hospitals?

Gravity conveyor

• a slide?

Overhead I-beam conveyor

• ?

Overland conveyor

• ?

Pneumatic conveyor=

• Great for powders, as it is almost a pipeline, but with a fluidized solid
• Technically also coveres pnuematic tubes?

Roller Conveyor

• powered, or passive)

Auger/Screw Conveyor

• Common
• COuld be useful to "get done" combines, grain elevators, solid fuel stuff etc

Vertical conveyor

• Dual chair + bracket based belt on it's side essentially?

Vibrating conveyor

• Use cases + advantages?

Potential Construction Sets

• Some sort of pipeline one?

Useful Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Conveyor Systems