In material handling operations, lane dividers are a great time saver. Empty bottles headed into a filling operation, for example, can be divided into two packaging lines to feed two fillers, cutting production time virtually in half. The same applies to labeling operations or any other operation on a line where input speed exceeds operational speed. That advantage has made dividers very popular. However, they often have one problem, and it's a big one. Most dividers in service today are mechanically driven, and deliver single bottles alternately to one output line, then to another. If one line that the divider is feeding goes down, both lines usually have to shut down because the divider cannot quickly adjust to send all incoming bottles to the remaining active line.
展开▼
