Year: 2015

July 14, 2015 Our customer suspected that, after a hard, 10-year run, this belt might be replacing. Besides being soaked with fluids and caked with metal shavings day – in, day out – this belt is so beat up, the cleats have worn down to nubs.
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July 14, 2015 Our customer installed this small Lite Series conveyor in a Swiss lathe, which runs various-length tubes. Longer tubes can be ejected through the sub-spindle, while the short ones are conveyed to the collection bin. This frees the operator to attend to other jobs while the finished parts accumulate.
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June 22, 2015 Art imitates the real life of a Mini-Mover conveyor. This clever AT&T ‘Life Simulator’ TV spot showcases the resilient Galaxy S6 phone — as well as the versatility of our LP Series conveyors. We enjoyed participating in this project with the creative team in Venice, Calif., who produced the ad for AT&T.
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April 28, 2015 Using sensor-positioning indexing, this Mini-Mover Liter Series conveyor is the core of a high-volume LED tester system. In less than 8 seconds, the tester verifies all LEDs are working, all connectors are present, the bar-code is correct and the board is delivering the correct color-temperature light. The tester automatically sorts good and bad boards after testing, stops if...
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April 14, 2015 Expect the unexpected. Maybe your “Z” conveyor isn’t quite “Z” enough. Maybe your new job setup has an unanticipated height difference between work cells. Portable, light but sturdy, these Lite Series incline conveyors are easy to pop in at needed points of your production line. We can make stands as high or low as you need....
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March 31, 2015 It was still running great, but started sounding a tad noisy. So, after running this Lite Series conveyor at 70-190+ fpm for a little over five years, our user recently thought a maintenance check might be due. These pictures tell the story of what happens when the belt tracking is allowed to wander wa-a-a-y...
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March 17, 2015 Imagine a telephone conversation in which you’re trying to describe the smell of ocean breeze to someone who’s never been to the seashore. Or the taste of a mango to someone who’s never eaten one. It’s often that way when we discuss directions of belt movement in multi-unit conveyor projects with even the...
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March 3, 2015 With Winter Storm Thor and other storms forecast to sweep the Midwest and northeastern states this week, everyone across the US will continue to experience the slow-down effects on everyday business. Delays in shipping may be inevitable but we can work together to minimize them if they occur. So far, our conveyor shipments into...
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February 17, 2015 Unattended collection of oily or fluid-soaked machined parts just got a little neater. Our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) Model 60-024 currently seems to be most popular of our three sizes to do drippy accumulation jobs — so our new drip-pan option makes its debut for the 24″ model. The drop-pan option, p/n 60-7027, consists of an...
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February 5, 2015 This inclined Lite Series conveyor was integrated into a custom handling system that provides part collection, then separation and sorting. Mini-Mover as Elevator Feeder
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