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    Vertical Rollers

Two spiked or spoked rollers horizontal to one another that the bottles would fall between and get crushed

 

Pros:

  • Gravity handles the movement of the bottles through the system

  • Could be built or bought separately to the conveyor sorting line and added at the end with no need for construction to current process

Cons:

  • Rollers would need pieces protruding from it to ensure bottles got crushed, would make product more expensive

  • Requires conveyor belt to be higher because collection point is lower to the ground

  • Current machines and products are large scale and industrial, meaning they are expensive and consume a lot of power

  • Hard to find small scale machines in this format

  • Rollers may need to be custom made to fit ideal vision and goal

Logistics:

Horizontal Roller(s)

 

Spiked or poked rollers placed one by one on the existing conveyor belt attached to motors that would crush the bottles as they passed under them. All rollers would be placed at the same height.

 

Pros:

  • Less expensive because parts can be bought separately and assembled in factory.

  • Cheapest options as can buy larger quantity, increasing chance of a deal, due to the symmetrical layout of the rollers

 

Cons:

  • Requires building of rollers and fastening them to the motors and existing conveyor belt

  • Hard to find and purchase individual rollers and available options to do so are expensive

  • Same height rollers don’t result in more crushing of the bottles as they progress down the belt

  • Rollers may need to be custom made to fit ideal vision and goal

  • Again, rollers would need protruding spokes or spikes to ensure bottles would get crushed.

    • This increases cost and decreasing likelihood of finding such a product.

    • Logistics:

    • Relevant Purchasable Products

    • Rollers

    • Motors

    • Brackets for rollers

Horizontal Rollers of Varying Heights

Spiked or poked rollers placed one by one on the existing conveyor belt attached to motors to cause rotation, placed at decreasing heights along the belt.

 

Pros:

  • As stated before, would be cheaper as parts can be sought and assembled separately

  • Gradually decreasing heights of the rollers would result in greater crushing of the bottles as they moved along the belt

  • Gradually decreasing heights of the rollers would result in less chance of a backup occurring by a plastic bottle not getting caught in roller because each roller wouldn’t need to crush the bottles significantly, only slightly

 

Cons:

  • Would require more work in assembling to varying heights for each roller

  • Mounts or brackets for rollers would need to be cut or purchased at varying heights to achieve set up

  • Slightly more expensive due to the uniqueness of each roller setup

  • Rollers would need to be spiked or spoked to ensure bottles would get caught by the roller, increasing costs slightly

  • May be hard to find individual rollers or rollers in small quantities without special ordering them

  • Rollers may need to be custom made to fit ideal vision and goal

 

Logistics:

  • Relevant Purchasable Products

    • Rollers

    • Motors

    • Varying height brackets

​Crush The Bottles!!

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