Spiral conveyors

Spiral conveyors are manufactured and supplied by APOLLO VTS. Spiral conveyors are nowadays a proven and reliable solution for vertical transport requirements (if space is an issue) of packed products. Our spiral conveyors are of heavy duty construction and can be delivered in painted carbon steel, stainless steel or wash down versions, suitable for the food industry. Please feel free to contact us for application assistance.

Spiral conveyor benefits/features

The spiral conveyor's main features can be summarised as follows:

• Small footprint
• Proven and reliable vertical conveyor for packed products
• One (1) drive
• Low (100% roller) friction due to specific APOLLO chain slat arrangement
• Built in safety protection
• Overlapping slats
• Easy to install
• Low maintenance
• Minimum noise level

Floorspace/small footprint

Spiral conveyors save valuable floor space. The spiral conveyor can convey loads up to 50 kg up and down in a continuous operation and can also be used as a space efficient buffer system. The spiral conveyor is of a rugged and modular design.

Roller friction/one drive

Only one (1) drive is required due to our special proprietary low friction chain slat arrangement. Low friction steel or stainless steel bearings in conjunction with the specific guiding system ensures very low friction and a smooth/quiet operation of the spiral conveyor.

For further information please check the technical information and applications page as well.

Spiral conveyor assembled in factory Coevorden

Spiral conveyor fully operational on site

Spiral conveyors - types

Spiral conveyors are all being manufactured to customer specification. The spiral range is the following::

• Single lane spiral conveyor
• Double lane spiral conveyor
• Mass flow spiral conveyor

For top views (downloads) please check our technical information page.

Single lane spiral conveyor

Spiral conveyors varying in belt widths from 200 mm to 650 mm as a single lane unit are utilized as elevators or as lowerators for continuous vertical transport featuring a small footprint, high throughput, low maintenance and long life. See below the different belt widths.

Type 200

Type 300

Type 400  

Type 500

Type 650

Double lane spiral conveyor

Double lane spiral conveyor with two (2) tracks next to each other. Is the latest development, already proven in the field. Both tracks are separately driven with a drive gear and have the possibility to run synchronised or with different speeds and or in opposite directions. This feature provides large flexibility for production facilities, where floor space is of utmost importance. The double lane spiral conveyor can be executed with different track widths.

Double lane installed in the beverage industry. Track width 300 + 400 mm

Double lane spiral conveyor

1200 - 300 / 2000 - 300 - D3 - 4,75 turns

Double lane spiral conveyor infeed

section D-model

Double lane spiral conveyors ready for transport

Special costom build double lane Spiral Conveyor. Due to limitations of system lay-out, drives needed to be on the inside, giving an extended drive shaft for the outside lane!

Top view transfer to downstream conveyor

Mass Flow transport of bottles in beverage industry

Mass flow spiral conveyor

The "Mass Flow" spiral conveyor with a 300 mm slat width is an ideal spiral conveyor for the transport of cans and bottles in mass flow. Products are transferred sideways onto our spiral conveyor and the similar process is applied at the outlet of the spiral conveyor.

Mass Flow slats

Mass Flow side transfer

Mass flow for cans of beer

Custom solutions

APOLLO recognizes that our customers sometimes have needs outside of our standard models. We are therefore prepared to customize and find individual solutions for our customers.

Example of custom made solution