Conveyor solutions in library use

Library conveyor – moving materials between automatic units or locations within the building

The library conveyor system can be used to link automatic Tuomas return units located hundreds of meters apart, making it possible to connect more than one return unit to the system and enabling material return points to be placed far from the sorting subsystem.

The return units that are linked using the library conveyor network form a single system where materials returned at any material return point are always transported to the correct sorting station. Additional sorting stations of individual library departments can also be placed along the conveyor line.

Our first conveyor system has recently been installed into the Turku main library, where the return units of the old library building and the new building have been linked. The conveyor system works in tandem with the material return points, moving (for example) books borrowed from the new building and deposited into return units in the old building to the new building, and vice versa.

This innovation makes sorting work much easier and guarantees the books are delivered to the correct location.

Library conveyor systems: product information

• links two or more material return points into a single system
• transportation of materials within structural elements (below the floor, within the ceiling or the partition walls)
• maximum range: several hundred meters or even kilometers
• customizable as required
• material identification during transportation (tracking)
• fast and quiet
• sorting of materials to different floors of the building (loans from regional libraries can be delivered to the basement, for example)

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