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NMX-MCC-30 · ENGINEERED TO ORDER — MOBILE BATTERY-OPERATED CHAIN CONVEYOR

Into the wagon. Out by evening.

Name: Mobile Battery-Operated Chain Conveyor
Brand: Neometrix

A depot’s bottleneck is not the yard — it is the doorway. Stores move well across an apron and badly through a rail wagon door or over a truck tailboard, and that is where the hours, the labour and the backs go. This machine wins them back by going to the load: wheeled and self-propelled, driven to the wagon rather than the wagon brought to it, with no civil work and no shore cable. It carries its own power for a plain reason — an engine cannot run inside a closed wagon, and a cable cannot follow the work — so the battery drive gives a working shift on a charge, silent and exhaust-free indoors and at night. The bed is a cleated slat chain, not a belt: it takes crates and point loads, runs both ways, and holds a box on an incline. Adjustable boom and extending sections reach deep into the wagon while the footprint still fits a gangway. A crew does what a platoon used to. Engineered to order — no delivered system is claimed.

Enquire — mobile chain conveyor Capability sheet (PDF)

Illustrative image, not a delivered system — a mobile chain conveyor deployed at a railway goods wagon on a depot platform: a wheeled olive-grey steel conveyor on solid rubber tyres with its slatted bed angled gently up into the open sliding door of a plain weathered wagon, three plain unmarked wooden crates riding the slats, a grey drive enclosure at the low end, early morning light on the concrete platform, no people and no text

Fig · 01 Deployed at the door — the machine reaches into the wagon, which is the only place a depot’s hours can be won back — illustrative, not a delivered system

Deploys

to the wagonself-propelled · no civil work

Power

batterya shift on a charge

Bed

slat chaincleated · reversible

Reach

into the wagonboom angle · extension

Built

to ordertrials · training · AMC

ISO 9001 / 14001 Engineered to order Depot & stores handling Battery & charging franchise Noida · India

Overview

The bottleneck is the doorway.

Depots are usually well organised everywhere except at the two places where stores change vehicle. A rail wagon is a deep box with one opening and no power inside it. A truck bed sits a metre up with nothing to stand on. Both are worked, in most depots, by people passing boxes hand to hand — which is slow, weather-bound, and the single largest source of injury in the building. Everything on this page follows from taking those two places seriously as an engineering problem rather than a manning problem.

Illustrative image, not a delivered system — close view along the slatted conveying bed of a chain conveyor: flat steel slats carried on heavy roller chain between painted olive-grey side guides, a toothed drive sprocket engaging the chain at the near end, grease on the chain and light scuffing on the slats from use, one plain unmarked wooden crate sitting square on the slats, no people and no text

Fig · 02 The slat chain — the reason the requirement names a chain and not a belt — illustrative, not a delivered system

Mobile, because the work does not move. A fixed conveyor needs the load brought to it; a depot’s loads arrive on rails and wheels and stay where they stop. So the machine is wheeled and self-propelled, driven along the platform to the wagon that is actually being worked, positioned in minutes, and moved again when the next one comes in. There is no civil work, no foundation and no fixed installation — which also means no capital project, no approvals and no disruption to a depot that has to keep running while it modernises.

Battery, because nothing else will do. This is the part of the specification that is most often treated as a preference and is actually a constraint. An engine cannot run inside a closed wagon or a shed — exhaust in a confined space is not a trade-off, it is a stop. A trailing cable cannot follow a machine that repositions along a platform all day, and shore power at the right point rarely exists. A battery drive answers both, and adds the things a depot values without being asked: it is quiet enough to work at night beside accommodation, and it starts instantly in cold weather. The design question that decides whether the machine is liked is sizing the battery to the shift, not to the datasheet — a machine that needs charging at two in the afternoon is a machine the depot stops using.

A chain, because a belt is the wrong tool. Boxed stores are point loads with corners: a belt mistracks under off-centre loading, slips its cargo on the incline a wagon door demands, and takes damage from crate edges and grit. A cleated slat and apron chain carries the box on a rigid surface, holds it on incline, runs in both directions so the same machine loads and unloads, and tolerates the abuse of a working platform. The requirement names the chain for good reasons, and the design should respect all of them.

This is the depot end of the handling franchise on this site — the trolleys work the field and the armament; this works the wagon and the shed. And the battery and charging behind it come from the same bench as our delivered rectifier and charger units.

Goes To The Work

No civil work, no cable

Self-propelled to the wagon actually being worked, positioned in minutes — no foundation, no capital project, no disruption to a running depot.

Its Own Power

A shift on a charge

Battery drive works inside closed wagons and sheds, and quietly enough for night shifts — sized to the shift, not to the datasheet.

Slats, Not Shoulders

The load never rides a back

A cleated chain takes crates, corners and point loads on incline and in both directions — the injury problem engineered out rather than managed.

Architecture

To the door, in, and out again.

The schematic follows the move — the wagon door as the real constraint, the machine driven in to meet it, the chain carrying what people used to, the stores out and stacked — and shows the machine behind it: chassis and wheels, the slat chain bed, the battery and drive, and the controls and safety along its length.

FIG · 03MCC ARCHITECTURE · CHASSIS + WHEELS / SLAT CHAIN BED / BATTERY + DRIVE · CONTROL & SAFETY

Fig · 03 The machine goes to the work — and the load never rides a back

Arc · 01

Chassis & Wheels

Self-propelled, site-deployed on solid tyres with outrigger feet — no civil work, no fixed installation, stows and moves on its own wheels.

Arc · 02

Slat Chain Bed

Cleated, reversible, point-load rated, with adjustable boom angle and extending sections that reach into a wagon and still fit a gangway.

Arc · 03

Battery & Drive

A working shift on a charge, exhaust-free and quiet for indoor and night work — charging and pack exchange designed into the shift pattern.

Arc · 04

Control & Safety

Pendant or remote, variable speed, jam detection; emergency stops along the length, guarded nips, load and incline limits, brakes on slope.

Mechanising a wagon siding, a despatch bay or a stores shed? Send the doors, the stack heights and the shift pattern — a clause-by-clause compliance matrix within two working days · [email protected]

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Specifications

Reference machine, built to the depot.

The parameters below describe a reference machine. The length, reach, bed width, chain rating, battery capacity and control scheme all follow from three givens: the doors and tailboards to be worked, the unit loads to be moved, and the shift pattern the depot actually runs.

Illustrative image, not a delivered system — the drive end of a mobile depot conveyor with its service panel open: a grey steel enclosure with the hinged side panel swung open showing a plain matt black battery pack with heavy insulated cables and a compact grey motor controller above it, a coiled black pendant control cable hanging from a hook on the frame, a solid rubber-tyred wheel and steel outrigger foot below, worn concrete depot floor, no people and no text

Fig · 04 The drive end — battery, controller and pendant: the parts that decide whether a depot keeps using the machine — illustrative, not a delivered system

Where depot conveyors go wrong

Almost never in the conveying. A chain and a motor are settled engineering; what fails is the fit to a real depot. The battery is sized to the datasheet rather than the shift, and a machine that wants charging at two in the afternoon quietly returns to the store. Throughput is quoted on flat ground and then meets a wagon door, a tailboard and a gangway it cannot fit — because geometry, not rate, is the binding constraint. A belt is offered where the duty needs a chain, and mistracks under off-centre crates. There is no answer for the abnormal case — a jammed box or a stalled chain deep inside a wagon. Modules are not field-serviceable, so one failed part idles the machine for weeks. And the controls are laid out for an operator standing at a panel rather than for a crew working along the length.

So the specification is written from the depot backwards. Battery capacity is set against the real shift, with charging and, where needed, pack exchange planned in. Reach, boom angle, head height and footprint are drawn against the actual doors, tailboards, stack heights and gangways. The bed is a cleated slat chain, reversible so one machine loads and unloads. Jam detection, controlled recovery and manual release are designed in, and everything likely to fail is a module a unit can change itself. Controls are pendant or remote so the operator stands where the work is, with emergency stops along the whole length and the standing rule that nothing and nobody rides the conveyor.

Full specification — expand

Machine	Mobile battery-operated chain conveyor for depot loading & unloading — chassis, conveying bed, battery drive & charging, controls, safety, ramps & extensions; engineered, built, trialled, commissioned & supported
Function	Moving packed stores through the places that slow a depot — rail wagon doors, truck tailboards, shed gangways & stacks
Mobility	Wheeled & self-propelled on solid tyres with outrigger feet — driven to the wagon being worked; no civil work, no foundation, no shore cable
Battery Drive	A working shift on a charge; exhaust-free & quiet for indoor & night working; charging — and pack exchange where the duty demands — designed into the shift pattern
Conveying Bed	Cleated slat & apron chain — boxed unit loads & point loads, reversible (one machine loads & unloads), no mistracking under off-centre loads, holds boxes on incline
Reach & Geometry	Adjustable boom angle & height, extending sections reaching deep into a wagon, head clearing a tailboard, footprint fitting a gangway — drawn to the depot that exists
Controls	Pendant or remote, variable speed matched to the crew, soft start under load, jam & queue detection, sequencing where two machines work one wagon
Safety	Emergency stops along the length, guarded nips & drive ends, load & incline limits, brakes & stability on slope — nothing and nobody rides the conveyor
Abnormal Cases	Jam detection, controlled recovery & manual release — designed so a stalled chain or jammed box deep in a wagon is recoverable safely
Ruggedisation	Dust, monsoon, temperature, high altitude & rough ground; field-serviceable modules a unit changes itself; a battery system a unit can maintain
The Family	The depot end of the handling franchise on this site — the trolleys work the field & the armament; battery & charging share the bench with our delivered rectifier & charger units
Sourcing	Cells, motors, controllers & standard drive components are bought-in certified items; Neometrix engineers the chassis, conveyor, battery & charging, controls, safety & extensions
Status	Engineered to order · quoted across mobile conveyor, stacker & depot loading-system requirements · grounded in the delivered handling, battery-charging & shelter franchises · no delivered system is claimed on this page

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Mobile Battery-Operated Chain Conveyor — Capability Sheet

Tender Response

Send doors, stack heights & shift pattern — compliance matrix in two working days

Variants

One idea, four ways to fit a depot.

Requirements arrive as a mobile chain conveyor, a telescoping loader, a stacker or a loading ramp. The idea — take the machine to the load and stop carrying boxes — is common; the outfit follows the doors, the unit loads and the shift.

Var · 01

Mobile Chain Conveyors

The core machine — self-propelled, battery-driven, cleated slat bed, adjustable boom, pendant control; sized to the wagon and the unit load.

Var · 02

Telescoping & Extending Sets

Reach deep into a wagon or container — extending sections and linked units that work as one run from platform to stack face.

Var · 03

Stackers, Ramps & Loading Gear

The rest of the doorway problem — hydraulic stackers, detachable loading ramps and platforms that let a machine reach a load bed at all.

Var · 04

Charging, Spares & AMC

Charging points, spare packs and battery care, field-replaceable modules, training and AMC — the reason a machine is still working in year five.

Applications

Wherever stores change vehicle.

Depots, sidings, despatch bays — the places where a load has to cross a threshold.

A · 01Ordnance & stores depots

A · 02Rail sidings & wagon loading

A · 03Truck & container loading bays

A · 04Forward & field stores dumps

A · 05Air-arm & naval store depots

A · 06Factory despatch bays

FAQ

Common questions.

Plain-language answers from the engineering team.

Q · 01 Why a chain conveyor rather than a belt?

Because the load is boxes, not bulk. A belt is superb at carrying material that spreads its weight along the belt — grain, aggregate, parcels of similar size — and poor at carrying rigid crates with corners and concentrated weight. Three problems show up immediately in a depot. First, mistracking: a crate placed off-centre pulls the belt sideways, and a belt that runs off its rollers damages itself and stops the job. Second, incline: reaching into a wagon door or up to a truck bed means running at an angle, and a smooth belt lets a heavy box creep or slide, so the practical incline is limited well below what the geometry demands. Third, abuse: crate edges, banding, grit and the occasional dropped load cut and abrade a belt, and belts are consumable in a way a depot cannot easily support in the field. A cleated slat and apron chain answers all three. The load sits on a rigid steel surface carried by chain, so off-centre placement is a non-event; cleats hold a box on the incline the doorway actually needs; and the bed tolerates grit, corners and rough handling for years. It is also naturally reversible, so the same machine loads in the morning and unloads in the afternoon. The requirement usually names a chain for exactly these reasons, and it is worth respecting all of them rather than value-engineering the bed.

Q · 02 Why battery power — why not a diesel engine or a mains cable?

Because both alternatives fail at the exact place the machine has to work. An engine cannot run inside a closed rail wagon or a stores shed: exhaust in a confined space is not a discomfort to be managed, it is a stop, and the wagon interior is precisely where the machine earns its keep. A trailing mains cable cannot follow a machine that repositions along a platform a dozen times a shift; it becomes a trip hazard, it gets run over, and a socket in the right place usually does not exist — sidings and forward depots are not wired for it. A battery drive removes both constraints and brings advantages a depot values without having asked for them: it is quiet enough to work at night beside accommodation, it starts instantly in cold weather, and it has far fewer things to service than an engine. The engineering that matters is sizing. Capacity is set against the depot's real shift — the loaded duty cycle, the traverse between wagons, the ambient temperature — with margin for a battery that is three years old rather than new, because capacity fades. Where the duty is heavy, a second pack and exchange is designed in from the start rather than retro-fitted. The failure to avoid is a machine that needs charging in the middle of the working day; that machine gets parked, and the depot goes back to carrying boxes.

Q · 03 What does it actually save?

Three things, and only the first is usually costed. Time: a wagon or a truck worked by a hand-to-hand chain of people moves at the speed of the slowest handover and stops entirely when the chain breaks for a break; a machine runs continuously at a set rate, and the job finishes in a predictable window rather than an optimistic one — which matters most when wagons are on demurrage or a convoy is waiting. People: the same work is done by a small crew placing and taking boxes rather than a large party carrying them, which frees trained people for work only they can do; in a depot with a chronic manning problem this is often the real justification. And injury: repetitive manual handling of heavy boxes, at awkward heights, into and out of a wagon, is the largest single source of back and shoulder injury in this kind of building. Those injuries are expensive, they are slow to heal, and they fall on experienced people. A conveyor does not merely reduce the lifting — it removes the specific movement that causes the harm, which is the twist-and-carry at height. The honest caveat is that a machine only delivers any of this if it fits the doorway, lasts the shift and can be repaired locally — which is why most of this page is about those three things rather than about conveying.

Q · 04 How does it fit a depot that already exists?

By being drawn against that depot rather than a generic one, because geometry is the binding constraint and it is fixed long before the machine arrives. The survey that starts a project measures the things that will decide the design: the wagon door width and sill height and how deep the machine must reach inside; the truck bed heights in use and whether a ramp or platform exists; the gangway widths and turning space on the platform and in the shed, which set the machine's footprint far more tightly than its length; the stack heights the discharge end must feed; the floor and ground it will travel over, including any slope; and where charging can practically live. From those come reach, boom angle range, head height, bed width, wheelbase and outrigger arrangement. Because the machine needs no civil work and no fixed installation, none of this becomes a construction project — which is usually decisive, since a depot has to keep working while it modernises and cannot close a platform for a build. It also means a depot can start with one machine on the busiest siding and extend later, provided the charging arrangement and spares are specified from the beginning for the eventual fleet rather than the first unit.

Q · 05 What happens when a box jams or the machine fails in a wagon?

This is the case that separates a machine a depot trusts from one it works around, and it is designed for first rather than last. On a jam, the drive detects the load rise or the chain stall and stops before it damages the bed or the crate, rather than pushing until something gives. Clearing is then the important part: there is a controlled reverse to back the load off, a manual release so the bed can be freed by hand with the drive isolated, and access to the chain and sprockets without dismantling the machine — all of it reachable from the platform side, so nobody has to work in the confined end of a wagon to sort out a stuck box. On a failure, the design assumption is that the machine may be deep in a wagon with a half-worked load: it can be moved by hand or towed clear with the drive isolated, brakes released deliberately rather than accidentally, and the load taken off safely. Beyond that, the maintenance philosophy is field-serviceable modules — drive unit, controller, battery pack, control pendant, chain sections — changed by a unit's own tradesmen with hand tools and held as spares, because a depot that waits three weeks for a visiting engineer has, in practice, lost the machine. Emergency stops sit along the whole length, not only at the panel, and the standing rule is absolute: nothing and nobody rides the conveyor.

Q · 06 What do you build, and what is bought-in?

What Neometrix does: the chassis and running gear — frame, wheels, steering and traction, outriggers and stowage; the conveying bed — slat chain, cleats, side guides, sprockets and tensioning, boom structure, angle and height adjustment and extending sections; the battery and drive installation — pack mounting and protection, wiring, isolation, charging arrangement and exchange provision, sharing a bench with our delivered rectifier and battery-charger units; the controls and safety — pendant and remote, speed control, jam detection, emergency stops along the length, guarding, load and incline limits, brakes; the ramps, platforms and extensions that make the doorway workable at all; and the trials, training, spares and AMC that keep a machine in service. What is bought-in certified: cells and battery-management components, motors, gearboxes, controllers, chain and standard drive components, each with its certificates. This page is the depot end of the handling franchise on this site — the trolleys work the field and the armament; this works the wagon and the shed. Engineered to order; quoted across mobile conveyor, stacker and depot loading-system requirements; no delivered system is claimed on this page.

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ISO 9001 / 14001 ENGINEERED TO ORDER — MOBILE BATTERY-OPERATED CHAIN CONVEYOR SELF-PROPELLED · A SHIFT ON A CHARGE · CLEATED SLAT CHAIN · DEPOT LOADING & UNLOADING ENGINEERED IN NOIDA · INDIA

Into the wagon. Out by evening.

The bottleneck is the doorway.

No civil work, no cable

A shift on a charge

The load never rides a back

To the door, in, and out again.

Chassis & Wheels

Slat Chain Bed

Battery & Drive

Control & Safety

Reference machine, built to the depot.

Where depot conveyors go wrong

One idea, four ways to fit a depot.

Mobile Chain Conveyors

Telescoping & Extending Sets

Stackers, Ramps & Loading Gear

Charging, Spares & AMC

Wherever stores change vehicle.

Common questions.

The handling family from Neometrix.

Munition Handling Trolley

Ammunition Packing & Container Line

Mobile Rectifier & Battery Charger Unit

Send the doors
and the shift pattern.

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Into the wagon. Out by evening.

The bottleneck is the doorway.

No civil work, no cable

A shift on a charge

The load never rides a back

To the door, in, and out again.

Chassis & Wheels

Slat Chain Bed

Battery & Drive

Control & Safety

Reference machine, built to the depot.

Where depot conveyors go wrong

One idea, four ways to fit a depot.

Mobile Chain Conveyors

Telescoping & Extending Sets

Stackers, Ramps & Loading Gear

Charging, Spares & AMC

Wherever stores change vehicle.

Common questions.

The handling family from Neometrix.

Munition Handling Trolley

Ammunition Packing & Container Line

Mobile Rectifier & Battery Charger Unit

Send the doorsand the shift pattern.

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Send the doors
and the shift pattern.