# Custom Conveyor Guards, Covers & Brackets

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K-Display, a Chicago sheet metal fabricator, makes conveyor drive, tail, and side covers, belt and chain guards, and side-rail brackets from your section drawings. Parts are laser cut, formed, and powder coated, with self-clinching nuts and studs installed, then labeled and kitted for each conveyor section.

## Overview
We build conveyor guards and covers for belt, roller, and chain conveyors: drive, tail, and side covers, belt and chain guards, and the side-rail brackets that carry them. Parts are cut and formed from carbon steel, galvanized steel, galvannealed steel, stainless steel, or aluminum, powder coated safety yellow or your line color, and delivered with self-clinching nuts and studs installed, labeled and kitted for each conveyor section. Guards and hinged doors on the machines beside the line are machine guards & access panels, and their outer panels are machine housings & covers.

## Process
- Cut and form: We laser cut the covers, guards, and brackets from your section drawings and form their flanges and returns.
- Deburr and press in hardware: We deburr every edge and press in self-clinching nuts and studs before any coating.
- Mask, coat, and kit: We mask the threads and the slots the rail bolts pass through, powder coat, then label and kit each section.

## Typical parts
- Drive, tail, and side covers: Formed covers over the drive end and tail end of a belt or roller conveyor, and side covers along the rail, fastened to come off for service.
- Belt and chain guards: Enclosures for a conveyor's drive belt, sprockets, and chain, in solid or perforated sheet, with returns that hold the guard off the moving part.
- Side-rail brackets: Brackets that bolt to the side rail and carry a guard or cover at a set offset, cut to the rail's pitch.
- Sensor and cable brackets on the rail: Slotted brackets that hold a photoelectric sensor or cable clamp at a set height on the rail.

## Design considerations
- Rail datums: A side-rail bracket locates from the rail. Holes cut from the bracket's own edge carry that edge's error into the guard the bracket holds, so we cut its holes and slots from the rail's datum and pitch.
- Section by section: Each section of a line has its own length, drive position, and bolt pattern, so a cover cut for one section does not seat on the next.
- Drive height: A drive belt low to the floor is within reach of anyone walking past the line. We build its guard as a full enclosure with one removable side for service.

## Related pages
- [Laser Cutting](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/cutting-forming/laser-cutting)
- [Sheet Metal Forming & Bending](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/cutting-forming/forming)
- [Hardware Installation](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/finishing/hardware-installation)
- [Powder Coating](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/finishing/powder-coating)
- [Brackets & Plates](https://kdisplay.com/products/brackets-plates)
- [Carts & Racks](https://kdisplay.com/products/carts-racks-bins)