Flat Plate Parts

Unified Supply stocks steel crescent pallets, also known as crescent flights or crescent plates, for most flat plate style carousels.  All steel crescent pallets are powder coated for protection from corrosive elements.  An optional urethane coating is available for the pallet top surface, providing an additional high-quality textured appearance and protection for claim areas.  Crescent pallets Unified Supply has available entail:

• Most Manufacturers Supported
• Standard and Oversize Widths Available
• Made of Minimum 1/4″ Thick Laser Cut Steel
• Powder Coated Finish for Make-up Areas
• Optional Urethane Coating for Claim Areas

Please call Unified Supply today and we can help you select the correct replacement pallet for your application.

Unified Supply provides link weldments for many different units.  These link weldments are called many other names in the industry, including drive chains by some customers because they surround the unit and are engaged by the drive.  Unified Supply provides link weldments individually, or in assemblies including the necessary hardware for faster field installation.  Additional information for Unified Supply’s link weldments:

• Carrier Links / Carrier Weldments
• Link Weldments / Link Assemblies
• Made of High-Quality Mild Steel

Unified Supply can help you determine which link weldments match your needs, as well as discuss the benefits of getting your order as multi-link assemblies.

Unified Supply provides drive chains and main chain for many flat plate units throughout the industry.  These chains are made from the highest-quality material and many are available for same day shipment.  Among these chain types are:

• Primary Drive Chains
• Drive Chains With and Without Lugs
• Standard and Oversize Drive Chains
• Motor/Reducer Drive Chains
• Main Chain (Surrounds the Carousel Perimeter)

Unified Supply understands your entire carousel can breakdown based on the failure of one chain.  We make every effort to maintain chain stock and provide shipment on demand.  Call today and we’ll verify support for your exact unit.

Wheels and support rollers are one of the highest frequency wear items on baggage conveyors.  Unified Supply provides the largest variety of wheels and rollers available for baggage carousels.  See below for a small sampling of the types of wheels and rollers we provide:

• Support Rollers
• Upper/Lower Support Wheels
• Guide Wheels (All Sizes)

Unified Supply keeps quantities of wheels and rollers in large scale for quick shipment.  Whether you need one wheel or a thousand, we will handle your order with care.  Simply call our Parts Specialists and we can help determine exactly what your unit requires.

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Among the most common wear items on baggage carousels are chain guides, wear bars and wear bar holders.  Maintaining these items frequently is one of the most effective ways to maximize the life span of the higher-cost components on your unit.  With this in mind, Unified Supply provides the following:

• All Sizes of Wear Bar & Strip Holders/Frames
• All types of Wear Bars & Strips (Steel, UHMW & Poly)
• Chain Guides, Including Metal and UHMW Components

Unified Supply stocks all different types of chain guides, wear bars and wear bar holders to support our customers.  Excessive wear of these products can lead to drive chain damage and ultimately additional damage to other critical carousel parts.  Please contact us if you have questions about the condition of your unit.

Unified Supply provides the cam followers and cam bearings for most baggage carousels.  These products come in several sizes, most of which we stock, including:

• Standard Sizes and Lengths
• Modified Lengths
• Threaded and Snap Ring Attachments

Please call today and Unified Supply will verify support for your cam follower and cam bearing products.

Video Transcript:

Tara: Hi, this is Tara with Unified Supply, and I’m here with Colin, and today we’re going to talk about cam followers, also known as cam bearings. So here I have in my hand a cam follower with a snap ring, and Colin has just a standard threaded cam follower. And he’s going to tell you a little bit about the difference and what they’re used for. So why don’t we start with the standard threaded cam follower? What is it used for on the carousel and why do you need to replace them?

Colin: Well, these are most typically going to be used on a flat plate. There are some old legacy slope plates out there that have these, the Stearns Maxi I is probably the best example. But typically, this is going to serve one of two functions, sometimes it does both. It’s either going to be the guide, which means that it’s going around the carousel, usually rolling along a track, and as you can see, this is a bearing, so it is able to pivot freely. As that goes around the track, it’s going to be riding along some of the steel. It’s fixed into, typically, a link weldment, and occasionally a pallet support. And when it does that, again, it’s going to be kind of maintaining that perimeter shape and keeping the crescent pallets or the stainless steel pallets in line with where they need to be.

The other function is that this is, because it’s very strong, it is made of steel, this is able to be engaged with the drive chain, and so you’ll actually have the drive chain hit it and drag it along, and that’s what propels the link weldments forward, like on one of the TransiTread style of carousels. That’s the typical use of this product.

Tara: Great. Well, thanks so much for stopping by and learning about cam followers. We hope to get an order from you soon, and just e-mail us at parts@unifiedsupply.com. Have a great day. Bye.

Unified Supply provides many different types of bearings and bushings for baggage conveyor carousels.  Listed below are just a sampling we provide:

Bearings:

Brands:  Dodge, Sealmaster, Browning, Ina, Timken, SKF, Fafnir, and many more.
Types:  Ball, Wheel, Roller, Flange, Pillow-block, Take-up, Thrust.

Bushings:

Brands:  Bunting, Boston, Oilite.
Types:  Steel, Spanner, Bronze (Sleeve, Flange & Thrust).

Power Transmission Components (PTC) are critical for all flat plate carousels.  Unified Supply supports all brands and styles of motors, reducers and gearmotors.  Also, we have frequently assisted customers in transitioning from the OEM motors and reducers to their own preferred models.  Below are a small sampling of PTC components we offer:

Motors:

Brands:  Baldor, Reliance, US Motors and many more.

Reducers:

Brands:  Dodge, Sumitomo, Grove, Ohio, Winsmith, Hub City, Boston Gear and many more.

If you have questions or a PTC need, please contact Unified Supply.

Unified Supply provides all of the specialized hardware used in the baggage conveyor industry.  Types include:

• Shoulder Bolts
• Spacers (All Sizes)
• Bronze Thrust Washers, Spring Washers, Wave Washers, Plastic Washers & Fiber Washers
• All Types of Miscellaneous Zinc Plated, Stainless Steel & Plastic Fastening Hardware

Unified Supply keeps baggage conveyor specific hardware in-stock to support our customers.  Please contact us to determine your particular needs.

We also supply replacement components utilized in all industry standard flat plate systems.

*Note: OEM and Brand names are for reference only, to indicate systems for which parts are compatible.