Category: Incline Conveyors
Lite Series Gives Packaging Hopper A Boost
This ag-supply manufacturer packages thousands of plastic product jugs per day. In this capping section on the line, they collect the lids in the hopper, whereupon the Lite Series conveyors lifts them up to the sort & alignment section of the line.
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Lite Conveyor Thrives in Dirty Environment
Many manufacturing processes can be pretty dirty, with dusts, oils and fluids. Our Lite Series conveyors were designed specifically with this reality in mind. For daily parts and scrap transport, Lite Series conveyors stand up to the test — year-in and year-out. These tough little units require no expensive maintenance or heroics to remain reliable....
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Create a Multi-Duty Mini-Mover using Special Incline Stand
Imagine if you could have just one portable conveyor to serve the needs of three very different work stations? Well, we did. Our customer needed a steep incline conveyor at one station, a horizontal conveyor at a second, and a shallow incline at the third. Our single-conveyor solution was all in the leg stand assembly...
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KASE Printing System with Lite Series Units
Mini-Mover conveyors form a reliable and cost effective solution in automation systems across many industries. Shown here is a print system designed by Kase Equipment of Valley View, Ohio. Serving the plastic packaging industry, Kase designs and manufactures silk screen systems, pad printers, thermal label transfer machinery, and digital printing machinery used to decorate plastic...
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Small Inclined LP Series Saves Labor in Lab
It’s often the small things that make a big difference in workbench ergonomics. This inclined LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor was added to this lab inspection station, to provide an automated transition of product from one surface to a higher one. This has resulted in big time and motion savings, meaning no more awkward bending and...
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Inclined Lite Series Conveyors Feed Inspection Stations
This multi-shift plant automated its machine unloading by using inclined Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyors. Each conveyor feeds finished parts up to a portable inspection station for each machine cell.
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RTA and Lite Series Conveyor Unload Machine
Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units are ideal for parts collection, even when loaded up with fluid-soaked or gritty parts. This customer chose to join an RTA and Lite conveyor he already had. An alternative is the use a Mini-Mover Uni-MateTM, which consists of conveyor and RTA and joining hardware, in kit form.
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1 Lite Conveyor + 1 Dump Truck + 3 Kids = Fun at Museum Exhibit
Here’s an educational and interactive Children’s Museum exhibit that uses 1 Lite Series conveyor, 1 dump truck, 3 children and teamwork. Child 1 (pink arrow) cranks the fertilizer pellets into the dump truck. Child 2 (blue arrow) drives the filled truck to the farmland and unloads it, and Child 3 (green arrow) navigates the pellets...
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Tough Lite Conveyor Speeds Electronics Parts Mfg.
This Lite Series conveyor was installed as an ergonomic improvement to eliminate a high hopper in this electronic parts workstation. The copper Thermi-Foil connectors in this part of the manufacturing process are brazed to shut the wire barrel seams. Then the connectors are collected and moved to the next station. It’s important that the conveyor...
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Paint Roller Bagging System with Lite Conveyors
Cleated Lite Series conveyors used in the Rollmaster Paint Roller Bagging System help make this system compact and efficient. Developed by All Packaging Machinery (APM) , the Rollmaster bagger is a great illustration of APM’s design ingenuity to solve packaging application challenges. The system includes a conveyorized paint-roller infeed, automatic cycling option, electric eye for printed film...
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