For sidewall belt producers, OEMs & system integrators
From inquiry to a quote-ready belt design — in minutes, not days.
Sidewall Belt Designer Pro turns your conveyor parameters into a complete, rule-checked belt configuration — so you can quote faster and design with confidence.
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- No credit card required
- 25 trial designs included
- Trial ends automatically — no charge
Belt configuration & capacity
- Belt width Bw
- 800 mm
- Sidewall · Cleat
- WKS 180 mm · TCS 160 mm
- Possible capacity
- 79.5 m³/h · 63.6 t/h
- Capacity reserve
- +6.0 %
Force chain & drive
- Effective tension at drive Te
- 3,223 N
- Belt safety factor S
- 13.7
- Standard motor (recommended)
- 11 kW
- Recommended base belt
- XE400/3+2TR
Built for steep-incline and vertical conveying in recycling, bulk handling and agriculture.
Sound familiar?
- Every inquiry waits in line until the one person who can size a sidewall belt has time.
- The sizing logic lives in a spreadsheet that only its author fully understands.
- Two engineers, two answers — the design rules exist in one person’s head, not in a system.
- Your most experienced engineer spends hours on routine sizing instead of the hard problems.
Three steps to your design
- Mass flow [t/h]60Conveying height H [m]20Incline angle β [°]90
Enter project data
Conveyor geometry, capacity, incline and boundary conditions — the data you already have from the inquiry.
- ⚠ TCS-160 · Cp 180 mmNarrow, deep pockets — verify filling and residual discharge with your material.✓ TCS-160 · Cp 240 mmrule satisfied
Configure the belt
Choose class, inset and cleat pattern or let the tool suggest options — risks are flagged immediately.
- Recommended base belt
- XE400/3+2TR
- Standard motor
- 11 kW
- Belt length to order
- 51.41 m
Get your result
A checked design as a result card and a one-page PDF datasheet, ready for your quote.
See exactly what you get
Real output, real labels — a complete force chain, capacity with the pocket cross-section, and a one-page PDF datasheet for your quote.
In the tool — result cards
Belt configuration & capacity
- Belt width Bw
- 800 mm
- Usable width (input) nw
- 320 mm
- Cleat pitch Cp
- 180 mm
- Sidewall
- WKS 180 mm
- Cleat
- TCS 160 mm
- Filling degree ψ
- 70 % (real 66 %)
- Possible capacity
- 79.5 m³/h · 63.6 t/h
- Requested mass flow
- 60.0 t/h
- Capacity reserve
- +6.0 %
Force chain & drive
- Material load mL
- 11.11 kg/m
- Belt weight (selected belt) mG
- 34.96 kg/m
- Conveying path (one way) L
- 25.0 m
- Effective tension at drive Te
- 3,223 N
- Pre-tension T2
- 8,232 N
- Maximum belt tension (steady state) T1
- 11,455 N
- Maximum start-up force TA,max
- 22,898 N
- Effective power
- 4.8 kW
- Shaft power (η = 0.80)
- 6.0 kW
- Standard motor (recommended)
- 11 kW
Base belt recommendation
- Recommended base belt
- XE400/3+2TR
- Tensile strength
- 400 N/mm
- Belt safety factor S
- 13.7
Construction
- Min. pulley diameter
- 450 mm
- Min. deflection wheel
- 720 mm
- Belt length to order (at minimum pulley)
- 51.41 m
Attached to your quote — PDF datasheet
⚠ In this option the pockets are narrow and deep relative to the cleat height. Such pockets may not fill completely during loading, and during overhead discharge material can wedge and remain in the pocket (carry-back, build-up, increased cleaning and wear). Verify filling and residual discharge with your material — especially if moist or sticky — or choose the option with the larger cleat pitch.
Conveying task & path
Belt configuration & capacity
Force chain & drive
Construction
Pocket Designer — proposals instead of guesswork
You know the conveying task, not necessarily the matching sidewall/cleat system. The Pocket Designer proposes one — ranked, with values you can adopt and the risks stated on the card itself.
TCS-160
with WKS 180 mm sidewall
- Belt
- XE 400
- Usable width nw
- 320 mm
- Cleat pitch Cp
- 180 mm
⚠ Narrow, deep pockets — verify filling and residual discharge with your material.
TCS-180
with WKS 200 mm sidewall
- Belt
- XE 400
- Usable width nw
- 410 mm
- Cleat pitch Cp
- 300 mm
Expert options — adjust the result
Four sliders recompute the result live without touching the design above — and without spending another design from your quota. One click restores the original state.
Reset to design values
Mistakes get caught before they ship
Built-in design rules check every configuration — and tell you in plain language what to fix. This is what a costly re-order looks like BEFORE it happens:
Every design runs against explicit rules: minimum cleat pitch, the free-space criterion for the base belt, minimum pulley diameters — the checks an experienced engineer runs in their head, applied to every single design.
And when a geometry cannot be built at all, no result is produced in the first place:
Not buildable
The requested usable width of 700 mm does not fit geometrically into the belt width of 800 mm — sidewall feet and edge-free zone together need more room than the belt offers.
To keep an invalid design from being passed on, this state deliberately offers no belt recommendation, no capacity figures and no PDF. This makes the design buildable:
What you gain
Speed
Typically under 5 minutes instead of 2–4 hours per design — quote while the inquiry is still hot.
Consistency
Same input, same rules, same result — for every engineer, every time.
Engineering confidence
Built-in design rules (cleat pitch, free-space criterion, pulley diameters) flag risk before it ships.
Commercial advantage
Respond days faster than competitors still doing this by hand.
Who's behind this
From the field, for the field
Yostro builds engineering software for conveyor technology. Designer Pro exists because sidewall belt sizing used to live in spreadsheets and heads — it makes sizing traceable, checkable and fast.
Markus Hickmann, founder — I answer every inquiry personally.
Founding-customer program
Become one of our first ten reference customers
Designer Pro is new to the market — and instead of a bought logo wall, we would rather offer you something real: as one of the first ten founding customers you get 30 % off your first year, a price guarantee on your list price for the whole life of your subscription, and a direct line to the development team.
In return, we may name your company as a reference: your logo on our website and a short quote after around three months of use — nothing is published without your approval.
You start with the regular free trial. You secure your founding-customer status when you upgrade — first ten companies only.
Why you can trust the numbers
Our design methodology is protected know-how built in years of real-world practice — we do not publish the formulas. What we do instead is make everything that matters checkable: you see every input and every result value, every design runs against explicit engineering rules, and every calculation model is validated against real serial designs before release.
Validated against real projects
Every calculation model is verified against real-world serial designs before release — steep-incline and vertical.
Explicit design rules
The checks follow the engineering practice of experienced belt designers — made explicit and applied to every design.
Calculated in Germany
Every design runs on our servers in Germany. The result returns to you immediately.
Your data is never stored
Project inputs and results are not saved — nothing is retained, nothing is shared with third parties.
Simple, fair pricing
One license covers your whole company — no per-seat pricing.
Flexible — cancel any month.
- Unlimited designs — no cap on paid plans
- One license for your whole company
- All sidewall and cleat classes
- One-page PDF datasheets for your quotes
- Built-in design-rule checks
- Email support
Equivalent to about €249 per month.
- 2 months free vs. paying monthly
- Unlimited designs — no cap on paid plans
- One license for your whole company
- One-page PDF datasheets for your quotes
- … plus everything in Monthly
Founding-customer program: 30 % off the first year for the first ten customers — all details
- 14 days free
- No credit card
- 25 designs included
As a small business under Section 19 of the German VAT Act we do not charge value added tax. The price shown is the invoice amount.
Frequently asked questions
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What happens after the 14 days?
Is my project data safe? Where is it stored?
How do I know the results are correct if I can't see the formulas?
Which belt types are covered?
Can my whole team use it?
Is there a limit on designs?
Can I cancel anytime?
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