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Power Free Basics

The document summarizes how a power and free conveyor system operates in automotive plants. Accumulating trolleys ride on power rails using retractable dogs to engage with pusher dogs on a power chain. When a trolley encounters a stop blade, its retractable dog disengages from the power chain and the trolley is held in place. Following trolleys accumulate behind the stopped trolley through actuating levers disengaging their retractable dogs. When accumulation is complete, the stop blade retracts and the trolleys' retractable dogs reengage the power chain to continue movement down the line.

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Power Free Basics

The document summarizes how a power and free conveyor system operates in automotive plants. Accumulating trolleys ride on power rails using retractable dogs to engage with pusher dogs on a power chain. When a trolley encounters a stop blade, its retractable dog disengages from the power chain and the trolley is held in place. Following trolleys accumulate behind the stopped trolley through actuating levers disengaging their retractable dogs. When accumulation is complete, the stop blade retracts and the trolleys' retractable dogs reengage the power chain to continue movement down the line.

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POWER & FREE

CONVEYOR OPERATION
Basic pictorials of how a power
and free conveyor operates in
automotive plants.
Accumulating Trolley
Components POWER RAIL
POWER OR TRACK
TROLLEY PUSHER
DOG FREE RAIL OR
TRACK
RETRACTABLE
HOLDBACK DOG
DOG

ACTUATING
CAM TAIL OR LEVER
BEAVER TAIL FREE ACCUMULATING
TROLLEY
Power Chain Disengagement
• When a retractable dog encounters a stop blade, it is pushed down,
releasing the trolley from the moving power chain. The disengaged
trolley is held in place by the trolley holdback dog
• (against the stop blade) and an anti-backup device.
HOLDBACK DOG
CONTACTS STOP
BLADE

ANTI-BACKUP STOP BLADE


DISENGAGES
RETRACTABLE DOG
FROM CHAIN
PUSHER DOG
Trolley Accumulation
• When the actuating lever on an accumulating trolley
engages the cam tail of a stopped trolley, it pivots up,
pulling down the retractable dog, disengaging the power
chain. Following trolleys disengage the same way.

ACTUATING LEVER WILL


DISENGAGE RETRACTABLE DOG
FROM PUSHER DOG
Power Chain Engagement
• When the stop blade is retracted, the counter weighted
retractable dog rises and is now in position to engage
the next pusher dog on the power chain.
RETRACTABLE DOG RAISED AND
POSITIONED TO BE MOVED BY CHAIN
PUSHER DOG

ACTUATING LEVER RAISED AND


RETRACTABLE DOG LOWERED AWAY
FROM CHAIN PUSHER DOG

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