The Celerity Linear Transfer Vehicle (LTV), assembled in a two rail, modular platform is often called the Sled. Virtually any mechanism or device for performing material handling tasks accurately andquickly, can be mounted on the sled.

Its controlled acceleration can be programmed for the load requirements, even during operation. The LTV Sled’s acceleration can be a straight-line function or shaped like an S-curve. The standard design reaches a top speed of 1,375 fpm.

From the chart above, you can see how quickly the sled can reach its top speed of 1,375 fpm even under heavy loads. Its cycle time is so short and the throughput so high, this technology far surpasses traditional conveyors and transfer cars. Adding conveyors creates a right angle transfer car that can distribute pallet loads along a 40-foot long path at rates of over 200 an hour. Adding a lift table with conveyor creates a multi-level transfer or storage device that can perform in the same rate range as ASR machines.

One of the more interesting potential applications is mounting a palletizing robot aboard the Sled to form customer orders from hundreds of production pallet loads positioned along is path. The system is simplified by not having to move the products to the robot. The sled positioning accuracy (+/-0.010 inch) facilitates controlling the accurate case selection at each pallet position. The system could be designed by you to take away emptied production pallets and feed full ones into position. Can a “lights out” order picking system be that far away?

Let your imagination create the applications you want and challenge the Celerity engineers to make it work.