In-Floor Trough Conveyors | PRAB
Health & Safety
Automating scrap transfer minimizes safety risks by decreasing forklift traffic and scrap contact with operators. Access platforms with safety railings on the load-out system are standard, meeting OSHA requirements.
Low Maintenance
PRAB conveyors have the industry’s leading reputation as being dependable low-maintenance equipment with long service lives. The load-out system provides no carryover issues, and has clean transfer of scrap to containers for low maintenance.
Heavy-Duty
PRAB conveyors are built tough to withstand the harsh conditions and materials moved in the metalworking industry.
Value
Load-out systems provide even container fill and automatic level sensors for maximum fill capacity. PRAB conveyors reduce downtime by automating the scrap transfer process- maximizing machine operator production time.

Quiet, efficient transfer of all types of machining scrap with the in-floor scrap conveyor.

Convey all types of metal chips, fines and turnings, wet or dry bushy wads, and tramp metal solids, in a liquid-tight trough. Ideal for high-volume coolant-flow applications.

  • Compatible with bushy turnings, chips, fines and tramp metals
  • Liquid-tight construction handles high volumes of cutting fluids
  • In-floor installation maximizes available plant floor space
  • Low power requirement
  • Easy maintenance – one moving part
  • Quiet operation
  • Prefabricated trough sections from 10′ to 20′
  • Ram sections available in 10′ lengths
  • Overall runs up to 500′
  • Low installation cost per foot
  • Optional safety cover plates
  • Height by width combinations range from 16″ to 36″

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In-Floor Trough Conveyors | Prab.com

In-floor trough conveyors are available as a free-floating ram design or guided ram scrap removal system.

In-Floor Trough Conveyor Ram Movement

In-Floor Trough Conveyor Ram Movement | Prab.com
Trough Configurations

Available trough configurations for the PRAB In-Floor Trough Conveyors | Prab.com

Harpoon® Conveyor

  • Free-floating ram design
  • AR liner

Push-Bar™ Conveyor

  • T-rail guided design
  • Hardened guide bushings with coiled spring spiral pins

PRAB Harpoon Conveyor

Harpoon Conveyor running moving metal turning through coolant.

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