The pellet loader is a unique device that takes the part stream from a sintering press, and gently stacks it into a sintering boat.  The pellets are first collected end-to-end on a thin conveyor. Once a full row is collected, the row is rolled onto a grooved tray. The tray indexes to expose a new row, and the process repeats.

When the tray is full, the entire layer is picked up with a high-flow vacuum gripper, and placed in the sintering boat.