Why Flow-Turn
Flow-Turn Inc. is the fastest growing independent manufacturer of belt curves in North America. Flow-Turn focuses on developing material handling solutions that meet and exceed customer needs and can offer one of the largest varieties of belt curves in the industry.
Founded in 1982 as PSC Floturn in Long Island, New York, the company was renamed in 2011 to Flow-Turn Inc. and today is located in Union, New Jersey. All Flow-Turn conveyors are engineered and manufactured in-house; metal & paint work, belt cutting & splicing, conveyor assembly and pre-shipment testing are all done in our own facility.
Flow-Turn offers replacement parts and belts for all Flow-Turn conveyors and many other makes.
The revolutionary Square-Turn Belt Curve
Flow-Turn’s Square-Turn belt power turns utilize the well proven and extraordinarily robust “loose belt” design with chain-driven belt and come with many advantages over other curve conveyor designs:
Better Product Transfer: Square-Turns have a constant diameter end roll for smooth transfer of all items, including small and irregular items. End roll diameters can run as small as 2”. For wider turns and higher speeds, we offer 2.5” and 4” diameter end rolls.
Easier Integration: Square-Turn drive and tail shafts are parallel to the shafts of infeed and discharge conveyors. Just as for straight belt conveyors, the transfer gap is narrow and parallel. No trapezoidal gaps or angled motors as for tapered pulley curves.
Reduced Noise: By design, Square-Turn lacings approach the cylindrical end roll at a slight angle, reducing the noise when the lacing runs onto the end roll. In addition, the plastic end roll material absorbs sound better than steel pulleys.
World Premiere:
The Flow-Merge Strip Belt Merge
Merge conveyors are used in many parcel distribution and fulfillment centers to combine or divert product streams. Our engineers have developed a strip belt merge with a particularly simple and low-maintenance design. The strip belts are self-tracking and quick-replaceable, traveling on a low-friction, low-noise slider bed.
Flow-Turn’s Flow-Merge conveyors are designed for high-speed applications and available in “Merge” and “Spur” design. Standard transfer angles are 30 and 45 degrees, other angles are available upon request.
The Knife Roll-Turn
Our engineers have developed a belted curve that can be used for systems transporting small items (food and bakery products, small parts, fragile items). The end roll is only 7/8” (22mm) in diameter and is a true 90 degree turn.
This feature assures you that you can position your conveyor adjacent to the Knife Roll-Turn with an even gap throughout the width and still maintain the desired input and discharge angles.
The Knife Roll-Turn has a fixed edge, also called “knife edge”. This means the edge never moves for belt tension adjustments.
This also allows for a very small gap between curve and adjacent conveyors.
The revolutionary Square-Turn Belt Curve
Flow-Turn’s Square-Turn belt power turns utilize the well proven and extraordinarily robust “loose belt” design with chain-driven belt and come with many advantages over other curve conveyor designs:
Better Product Transfer: Square-Turns have a constant diameter end roll for smooth transfer of all items, including small and irregular items. End roll diameters can run as small as 2”. For wider turns and higher speeds, we offer 2.5” and 4” diameter end rolls.
Easier Integration: Square-Turn drive and tail shafts are parallel to the shafts of infeed and discharge conveyors. Just as for straight belt conveyors, the transfer gap is narrow and parallel. No trapezoidal gaps or angled motors as for tapered pulley curves.
Reduced Noise: By design, Square-Turn lacings approach the cylindrical end roll at a slight angle, reducing the noise when the lacing runs onto the end roll. In addition, the plastic end roll material absorbs sound better than steel pulleys.
World Premiere:
The Flow-Merge Strip Belt Merge
Merge conveyors are used in many parcel distribution and fulfillment centers to combine or divert product streams. Our engineers have developed a strip belt merge with a particularly simple and low-maintenance design. The strip belts are self-tracking and quick-replaceable, traveling on a low-friction, low-noise slider bed.
Flow-Turn’s Flow-Merge conveyors are designed for high-speed applications and available in “Merge” and “Spur” design. Standard transfer angles are 30 and 45 degrees, other angles are available upon request.
The Knife Roll-Turn
Our engineers have developed a belted curve that can be used for systems transporting small items (food and bakery products, small parts, fragile items). The end roll is only 7/8” (22mm) in diameter and is a true 90 degree turn.
This feature assures you that you can position your conveyor adjacent to the Knife Roll-Turn with an even gap throughout the width and still maintain the desired input and discharge angles.
The Knife Roll-Turn has a fixed edge, also called “knife edge”. This means the edge never moves for belt tension adjustments.
This also allows for a very small gap between curve and adjacent conveyors.
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