Spiral Return Idlers
Eliminate Costly Carryback: Self-Cleaning Spiral Return Idlers
Carryback and material buildup on the return side of your conveyor is more than a nuisance—it’s a source of belt damage, misalignment, and hours of manual labor. Our Spiral Return Idlers are the engineered solution. Featuring a continuous spiral design that acts as a built-in cleaning system, they actively dislodge sticky residues like clay, coal fines, and wet aggregates during every rotation. This prevents material accumulation, protects your belt and structure from damage, and drastically reduces cleanup downtime, ensuring your system runs cleaner and more efficiently.
The Active Cleaning System That Works Every Second of Operation
When sticky materials cling to your conveyor belt’s return side, they create a cascade of problems: belt slippage, misalignment, premature wear, and piles of wasted product under the conveyor. Our Spiral Return Idlers are designed to break this cycle. Unlike standard return idlers that allow buildup, our idlers feature a rotating spiral disc design that scrapes and cleans the belt surface with every pass, transforming a passive component into an active cleaning system that pays for itself in saved labor and prevented damage.
Stop Cleaning and Start Preventing:
Eliminate Manual Cleanup and Reduce Labor Costs
Feature: Continuous spiral steel design that rotates against the belt.
Advantage: Acts as an automatic scraper, preventing the accumulation of sticky or wet materials on the idler and belt.
Benefit: Frees your maintenance team from the dangerous and time-consuming task of manual scraping and cleanup, redirecting labor to more valuable activities.
Protect Your Belt and Prevent Costly Misalignment
Feature: The spirals keep the return belt path clean and clear.
Advantage: Prevents material from being trapped between the belt and idlers, a common cause of belt tearing and tracking issues.
Benefit: Extends the life of your conveyor belt and reduces the risk of sudden, costly failures due to mistracking or belt damage.
Maintain Peak Efficiency with a Sealed, Maintenance-Free Design
Feature: The same robust construction as our premium idlers, with advanced labyrinth seals and high-grade bearings.
Advantage: The self-cleaning action keeps the idler itself free of buildup, while the seals keep bearings safe from contaminants.
Benefit: Ensures long-lasting, maintenance-free performance even in the stickiest, most abrasive environments, providing reliable operation with zero additional effort.
Ideal for the Toughest Sticky Material Challenges
Feature: Effective on a wide range of cohesive materials.
Advantage: Proven in industries where carryback is a major issue.
Benefit: The definitive solution for handling clay, wet sand, coal, wood chips, and other adhesive materials in mining, aggregate, and biomass applications.
Built to the Highest Standards for Guaranteed Performance:
We don’t compromise on the components that matter. Each spiral idler is constructed with a high-precision steel pipe, a robust carbon steel shaft, and protected by our multi-stage sealing system to ensure the cleaning action never stops due to bearing failure.
The Most Effective First Line of Defense Against Carryback.
Before investing in expensive secondary belt cleaners, ensure your return idlers are working for you. Our Spiral Return Idlers provide continuous, passive cleaning that dramatically reduces the burden on the rest of your system.