Installation and Maintenance Manual: Shoe Sorter
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Installation and Mai ntenance Manual: Shoe Sorter
Published October 2019
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TERM/ACRONYM
DEFINITION
Retroreflective
Of or relating to a surface or device that reflects light or other radiation back to its
source.
Return Idlers
Belt-routing rollers on the underside of any given AC conveyor.
RLSDC
Roller Live Spur Direct Current; DC roller conveyor powered by live MDRs and configured
as a spur.
Roller
Powered or unpowered cylindrically-shaped material handling component used for
mechanical power transmission, a conveying surface, and/or support for a belted
conveying surface.
Shingling
Event in which surfaces of adjacent cartons, cases, or totes are forced to lift off the
conveyor due to elevated uneven carton, case, or tote back pressure.
Shoe
A sliding element that engages with cartons, cases, or totes to divert from a shoe sorter
onto a spur.
Side Cover
A PVC cover used to conceal and protect electrical components and wiring from foreign
debris and moving obstacles.
Side Frame
Structural member used to support rotating components needed for conveyor beds.
Singulation
The active separation of cartons, cases, or totes.
Skatewheel
Small unpowered wheels used to replicate nearly frictionless guidance or support of
conveyable cartons, cases, or totes.
Skew
A format of DC conveyor where one end of all rollers are shifted one roller position to
provide an angled conveying surface for left or right justification of cartons, cases, or
totes.
SKU
Stock Keeping Unit; Product and service identification code for a product (i.e. bar code).
Slug
Collection of two or more cartons, cases, or totes that are in contact with one another.
Snub Roller
A roller or pulley mounted to increase the arc of contact between a belt and drive pulley.
Additionally, this can be used to change the direction of the return belt travel.
Sorter
Any piece of conveyance equipment used to divert a series of cartons, cases, or totes
simultaneously.
Splice Assembly
A five-component assembly-consisting of a plate (or formed plate), two bolts, and two
nuts-that is used to secure a piece of guide rail to an adjacent piece of guide rail, or a
side frame to an adjacent side frame. This is used to provide additional structural rigidity
and ensure relative position of components is maintained.
SPST
Single Pole Single Throw; a type of electrical switch.
