What Are The Classifications of Idler Rollers

Idler Rollers are important components of belt conveyors, with a wide variety and large quantity, which can support the weight of the conveyor belt and materials. It accounts for 35% of the total cost of a belt conveyor and generates over 70% of the resistance, making the quality of the Idler Rollers particularly important. It comes in two types: steel and plastic.

Main categories

1. Divided by material into rubber rollers, ceramic rollers, nylon rollers, and insulation rollers.

2. There are mainly groove shaped roller sets, various parallel roller sets, various self-aligning roller sets, and various buffering roller sets.

(1) Groove shaped rollers include ordinary rollers, forward leaning rollers, quick change bearing rollers, hanging rollers, triple chain rollers, reversible rollers, variable groove angle rollers, transition rollers, V-shaped rollers, etc;

(2) Parallel rollers include ordinary rollers, comb rollers, forward leaning rollers, steel rubber rollers, spiral rollers, etc;

(3) There are universal type, friction reversible type, strong type, cone type, spiral type, and combination type of self-aligning rollers;

(4) Buffer rollers include spring plate type rollers, buffer ring type rollers, strong buffer type rollers, adjustable elastic type rollers, hanging type rollers, etc;