Shuttles
The Shuttle moves product from one lane to another, parallel lane. This can be an adjacent return lane, a lane shift, or converging or diverging lanes (e.g. one lane into two or two lanes into one). It consists of a shuttle conveyor mounted to a pneumatic actuator. Product arrives on the shuttle conveyor and stops. Then the actuator moves the shuttle conveyor to the new position, and the shuttle conveyor drives the product off in the desired direction. An electric actuator may be used for multilane indexing processes that need more than two lane positions.