Freezer Room
spiral tray chain in a freezer room
Lay out a two-tower spiral tray chain in an insulated freezer room and check tray capacity, link tension, start-up and heat gain.
Product pages are in English.

Highlights
- Builds both helices, crossovers and outfeed from levels, pitch and tower spacing, and counts the trays
- When the trays do not fit, reports what each dimension alone would need
- Tension of every link with the drive split that keeps the chain taut, plus guide, pin and pad loads
- Start-up of the loaded line with two speed-controlled motors, trip torques and a pneumatic take-up
- Room U-value and heat gain; save inputs on your computer or in your cloud
A question it answers
Do 900 trays fit on an 11-level, 6 m spiral, and is a 6 kN take-up cylinder enough to keep the loaded chain from going slack at start-up?What you put in
Levels, level pitch, tower spacing b, row spacing a, outfeed length c, chain pitch and sprocket teeth, tensioner and inside-motor levels; tray count, links per tray, chain/tray/product masses; room clearances, insulation material and thickness (or a U-value), temperatures, outfeed hole; friction, guide share, pad spacing and area, drive split (computed or typed), cylinder force, breaking load; loop time, ramp, trip torques, stiffness, damping, time step.
What you get
3D layout with trays and the room, plan view; chain length, links, tray capacity and fill; per-dimension fit table when the trays do not fit; tension per link (chart, 3D colour, CSV), peak/minimum, slack, drive forces and split, guide/pin loads, pad pressure; start-up time series (speed, torques, tension, take-up) with verdicts and 3D playback; room area, U-value and heat gain.
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