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Cleated belts can increase conveyor efficiency by preventing material rollback, increasing the incline of the conveyor, running at faster speeds, or assisting with specialized sorting needs. Flexco offers a complete line of end user applied pegs, lugs, cleats or V-guides. The mechanically attached cleats can be installed directly on the conveyor with simple hand tools.

Advantages of Cleated Conveyor Belts: Prevent Rollback Cleats gently cradle the conveyed product and prevent rollback. Cleats can convey round, granular or unpackaged loose materials that otherwise would tend to roll or flow backward on an incline belt. Eliminating rollback also permits higher conveyor speeds, for greater productivity. Increase Conveyor Incline Properly selected and installed cleats can elevate the conveyed product at steeper inclines. This allows for shorter conveyors, less floor space and increased efficiency. Flat belts can even be converted to incline belts with cleats! Customized Installation Patterns By varying the cleat spacing and arrangement, you can position cleats to allow for basic size-sorting, counting, spacing, timing and collating functions.

Quickly Install Cleats and Guides with Simple Hand Tools Flexco's complete line of mechanically attached cleats and V-guides can be easily installed onto the belt with standard hand tools, allowing you to customize an existing belt for greater operating efficiencies. In addition, damaged or missing cleats can be replaced with one of our many styles of Tatch-A-Cleat® mechanical cleats. Turn the page for more mechanical cleat solutions from Flexco!

Tatch-A-Cleat® Mechanical Cleat Solutions:

Model L Cleat Model L cleats are ideal for light-duty applications such as food processing, industrial conveyors, parts handling and harvesting equipment. Produced from nitrile, the cleat offers a long life, high tensile rubber with superior resistance to the deteriorating effects of oils, heat, acids and weathering. Available in five heights from 5/8" (16mm) to 3" (75mm).

Model HD Cleat Model HD is a heavy-duty cleat, engineered to stand up to abrasive, high-impact applications such as mining, agriculture, construction, scrap, trash-burning and material handling. Model HD cleats are manufactured from an abrasion-resistant SBR compound for added durability. The high tensile strength and flexibility of this cleat allows it to be used in troughing conveyors or in applications employing horseshoe, chevron or crescent cleat patterns. Available in 1" (25 mm) or 2" (50 mm) heights.

Econo-Cleat® Econo-Cleat® is an economical cleat option for a wide variety of material conveying. Available in a choice of application-matched materials: choose specially compounded, high-durability EPDM rubber for excellent resistance to abrasion and the effects of weather; or select PVC for less demanding applications. Available in five heights from 1-1/4" (31 mm) to 6" (150 mm).

Tatch-A-Lug® and Tatch-A-Peg™ When full belt width cleats are not required, intermittently spaced lugs or pegs can be an inexpensive, yet effective solution. Pegs and Lugs can be installed in any pattern to avoid rollback or to fit your customized sorting requirements. Non-marking, FDA-approved, isoprene lugs are available in 1-1/2" (38 mm) and 2" (50 mm) heights. Pegs are available in 2" (50 mm) and 3" (75 mm) heights.

Tatch-A-Guide® Easy-to-install, v-shaped rubber guides help keep belts centered over split or grooved pulleys. Attached firmly to the underside of the belt using only a belt punch and screwdriver, Tatch-A-Guide® is a simple way to solve belt-tracking problems. Intermittent spacing and notched design provide easy flexing over pulleys. Available in standard A, B, and C V-guide sizes.