Shuttleworth, Inc.

As an international engineering company, Shuttleworth is dedicated to producing the finest quality in-process material handling machinery available today. Shuttleworth has over 36 years of experience in the original design, planning and manufacturing of custom-engineered segmented roller systems and has over 8,000 systems installed worldwide. Technical service and support is available worldwide. Shuttleworth has a staff of over 35 engineers that become an extension of your engineering department. Shuttleworth has an on-site research and development lab combined with an expert team of sales, application, mechanical and controls engineers on staff to meet your needs. Shuttleworth conveyor systems are used in a wide variety of applications in numerous industries, including: Light manufacturing. assembly, packaging, food processing and packaging (including USDA applications), electronics (manufacturing, assembly and test), cleanroom (including semiconductor, medical products and pharmaceutical industries), printing and binding operations and many more. Key features include: low line pressure accumulation, sorting, accumulation, pattern forming, vertical conveyors, multiple bi-directional lanes, positioning, indexing, control of electrostatic discharge, esthetic and ergonomic design, low noise, combining and dividing and custom product handling devices. Order direct or contact your regional sales manager for a dealer, manufacturer's representative or OEM nearest you.

Vertical Conveyors, Cleanrooms, Mini Environments, Indexer, Swingers

Slip-Torque� Principle
Slip-Torque� conveyor technology was pioneered by Shuttleworth in 1972 and has evolved through over thirty years of practical application in numerous industries. It is based on polished stainless steel shafts individually powered by flexible belts on a line shaft or by a continuous chain. These stainless steel shafts are covered with segmented, loose-fit rollers, which become the conveyor surface. It is the weight of the product being conveyed combined with the coefficient of friction between the shafts and the inside diameter of the rollers that provides the driving force. As the weight of the product increases, there is a corresponding increase in the driving force supplied. As products stop, the segmented rollers beneath them also stop, creating very low backpressure accumulation and reducing product damage.