Importance of Using and Infeed and Outfeed Conveyor Checkweigher with infeed conveyor, conveyor scale and outfeed conveyor. Q. Why does VBS recommend supplying the infeed and outfeed conveyor for their Checkweighers/Conveyor Scales? A. The best way to explain this is to show how a checkweigher behaves when the customer supplies their own infeed and outfeed conveyor. FACT: A customer’s infeed conveyor speed will rarely precisely match our conveyor scale speed. Even if these are off by just a few feet per minute, the following will occur. As the orange box transfers from the infeed conveyor to our scale, the speed difference will create vibrations in the package to be weighed. The vibrations are created because two different belts are pulling on the same box. Although you cannot see the vibrations, they will continue even as the product fully transfers onto the scale, slowly and gradually over time subside. Our load … Continue reading Importance of Using an Infeed and Outfeed Conveyor