01Incline conveying: lifting parcels under control
An incline conveyor is a belt section working against gravity, and everything about it — belt surface, angle, parcel weight and spacing — decides whether parcels arrive at the top as they left the bottom. The belt's friction carries the load; where friction alone is marginal for the parcel mix, the section design compensates with belt selection and parcel presentation. The Goodscan range lists incline conveyors and the related climbing belt machines for warehouse level changes: dock to mezzanine, floor to overhead sort level, and returns flows coming back down.
Declines deserve the same engineering respect as inclines: a descending section is a metering problem, holding parcels back at the line's pace rather than letting them run away into the section below. Incline and decline sections are usually specified as a pair around the level change, with the transfer heights at both ends matched to the adjoining sections.
02Curve conveying: turning without transfers
The alternative to a curve is a transfer — parcel leaves one straight section, crosses a junction, joins another — and every transfer is a place where parcels skew, stall or fall. A curve conveyor carries the parcel through the turn on a continuous belt surface, orientation preserved, no junction. Goodscan curve (turning) belt conveyors handle the direction changes in a line run: around columns, along walls, and between the building's zones.
Curves also protect the measuring and sorting stages downstream. A DWS section wants parcels arriving aligned and spaced; a well-designed curve delivers them that way, while a cheap transfer delivers them rotated and bunched — another case of an unglamorous section quietly deciding the performance of the instruments behind it.
03Planning level changes and turns
The inputs are the floor plan with levels marked, the parcel profile (heaviest and slipperiest items govern incline design), and the throughput the vertical sections must sustain — inclines and curves are line sections, sized to the same hourly duty as the straights they join. Heights, angles and radii come out of the layout work rather than a catalogue table; send the plan via the contact page and the vertical route is drawn with the rest of the line.