Benefits
A guide is an accessory that can be welded or glued to the bottom or top of your conveyor belt. Guides are most useful when when load is present on a conveyor belt. On the bottom of the belt, a guide aids in the tracking process as it moves the belt along the conveyor. When a belt does not track, it will tend to sway from side to side. A guide will minimize wandering and support load consistency. In this way guides prolong belt life by improving tracking and reducing the amount of wear on each edge. For more information on tracking, click here. Guides can also be added to the top of the belt for product containment.
Guide Options
We offer many different sizes and colors of solid and notched guides. Most guides are tapered at the bottom. This is called a v-guide.
The size of a v-guide is mostly determined by the grooves in the pulleys or slider bed of your conveyor. Depending on placement, this may also impact the center or indent of the v-guide(s). Generally, your v-guide should have 4mm of clearance on each side of the groove for pulleys and 2mm of clearance on each side for slider beds. V-guide is commonly cut down or notched to reduce flex fatigue on the top cover, which can cause cracking. When cracking occurs, there may be a minimum pulley violation. Contact Mol Belting for more information.
V-Guide Specifications
PVC Guide
- Sizes: K6 to K30 or 000 to D
- Colors: White, Black, Blue, and Blue/Green
- Notch: Round "U"
- Durometer: 80 Shore A
- COF: .546
PU Guide
- Sizes: K6 to K30 or 000 to D
- Colors: Clear, Blue/Green, Blue, and Black
- Notch: Deep "V"
- Durometer: 40 Shore D
- COF: .672
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Guide Placements
There are several ways to designate where you would like a guide to be placed on a conveyor belt. The most common position for guide depends on the number of guides on the belt. A conveyor belt with a single guide down the middle is call center position, or CPS. When multiple guides are present, flush to outside edge is used to indicate there will be a guide at each lateral edge of the belt. All other measurements are indicated by either an indented distance from the center of a guide to the edge of the belt, or a center-to-center measurement between two guides.