Single-filing is a critical aspect of maintaining a smooth and efficient production line, and Garvey’s Infinity Accumulators are specifically designed to excel in this area. Our accumulators ensure that your machines receive a continuous, steady flow of products, crucial for uninterrupted processing. What makes Garvey systems truly unique is the integration of a slowdown lane—a feature that not only enhances single-filing speeds but also minimizes the risk of product damage during the process, making your production line faster and more reliable.
What’s the Purpose of a Slowdown Lane?
Our systems are engineered to outfeed unstable products with unmatched speed and efficiency, surpassing any competitor on the market. The introduction of our patented slowdown lane revolutionized our accumulation systems, allowing us to not only double but, in some cases, even triple line speeds.
This remarkable improvement stems from the way products approach the outfeed on a typical accumulation table. Without a slowdown lane, products often arrive in a nested formation, which creates turbulence and increases the risk of product damage. By contrast, Garvey’s slowdown lane gently decelerates the products before they reach the outfeed, ensuring a smooth transition and significantly reducing the potential for instability and damage.
Our slowdown lane, moves 10-15% slower than the rest of the belt. This causes the products to stack instead of nesting, making them easier to separate without turbulence. As a result, we are able to increase the line speed and prevent product instability and damage.
As you can see in this side-by-side comparison, when products hit the slow lane, rather than testing between the products in the outfeed lane, they become stacked instead. This revolutionary slowdown lane makes it simple and effective to separate products without jostling them, solving any instability issues and allowing you to increase the line speed and, therefore, the production rate.