Hi All,

Does anyone know of suitable and simple machines for feeding/discharging tires from a storage carosel/cage.

We envisage manhandling tires into a storage device - they could be stacked or stored to suit the "mechanisism" by the person.

From there, the tires would be fed/discharged out one by one to a belt conveyor which is indexed along tire by tire to downstream machines.

The person has to use his time to get more tires and take them up a lift etc etc.

Hence, we need a buffer system to provide this time period. The buffer system should be able to accomdate 30 or more tires at max.

The indexing belt conveyor can hold a max of 10 tires from the end to the head discharge. There is not much room to extend this conveyor to store more tires > but there is not much to be gained as it takes up real estate for not mcuh gain in buffer capacity.

One idea is to have a second belt conveyro above the indexing conveyor ie "S" flow of tires to fed the end of the index conveyor...

Another idea is a storeage cage where the tires are packed/racked in a way to suit some sort of tire ejector/feeder to the tail of the index conveyor...

We are looking for a cheap solution.

Any bright ideas???

Cheers

James ■