Year: 2016

August 2, 2016 Many people asked, so here’s a short video of how our new Reflective Sensor option for the LP Series works. As we posted previously, this economical photoelectric laser sensor is based on object detection on the conveyor belt. It’s a quick and easy way to make sorting and other material handling tasks even easier. It functions to...
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July 19, 2016 Our customer uses this Lite Series conveyor to feed caps into a secondary hopper, which in turn feeds the capping machine on the bottle packaging line. Along with a 24″ x 24″ metal hopper, a control sensor was added to allow the conveyor to start and stop. All components – conveyor, hopper and controls – are mounted on a...
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July 6, 2016 Who says conveyors can’t be fun? Our LP Series conveyors get to play daily, as part of the Pachinko Gizmo at the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, located in Santa Rosa, Calif. The Gizmo is located in the Science & Imagination Gallery. Children fire balls across the gallery into the Gizmo and watch the balls...
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June 21, 2016 We all have familiarity with LCD displays and touch screens in our everyday lives – such smart phones and tablets – but ever wonder how all the display’s multiple layers get sandwiched together? The UVCS 6000 UV curing system (shown below), designed and manufactured by E3 Displays of Phoenix, Ariz., is used in clean room...
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June 7, 2016 Get the most productive time out of your machine and materials investment, while saving labor costs. At half the cost of competitive alternatives, the highly portable Mini-Mover Uni-Mate™ family is a purpose-built bundling of our RTA units and conveyors, expressly suited for unattended collection and protection of sensitive parts during daytime or overnight runs. For...
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May 24, 2016 Highly adaptable for corner-transfer setups, these LP Series conveyors are an integral part of this medical manufacturing cell.
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May 20, 2016 Stage 5 of the 2016 Amgen “Tour of California” pro bike race, on May 19, rolled past the Mini-Mover Conveyors campus on the group’s route up the Sierra Nevada mountains to South Lake Tahoe. Our employees got a special break to watch the procession — CHP motorcycle officers, race officials, over 150 riders and scores of...
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April 26, 2016 Based on object detection on the conveyor belt, this economical photoelectric laser sensor option for the Mini-Mover LP Series conveyor makes inspection, sorting and other material handling tasks even easier. It’s a simple but effective solution to help automate these everyday functions. Designed for use with the LP Series conveyor equipped with T-slots, Mini-Mover Conveyors offers...
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April 12, 2016 Ink-jet and laser coding & marking systems can have as many shapes and sizes as the diversity of products and packing in today’s marketplace. Our various ink-jet/laser oriented fixtures are aimed at making the LP Series conveyor a quick, easy production companion that can keep your print quality high. Our Encoder Wheel fits on the LP’s...
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March 8, 2016 When transferring slick, brittle ceramic parts downhill to the next work cell, our customer had a breakage concern. We solved the problem by equipping this declined LP Series conveyor with a sticky, grippy belt to slow the parts on their downhill slide. Sometimes, just a seemingly small change of belting material can make a big...
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