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Mini-Mover Conveyors
a division of Whipple Enterprises

21150 Shake Ridge Road
Volcano,CA 95689 USA

Toll-Free Phone: 800-586-4585
Local Phone: 209-296-5128
Fax: 866-900-5124

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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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“Striped” LP Conveyors in Testing Station

No, they’re not racing stripes. The longitudinal cleats, or ribs, on these LP series conveyors are specially spaced to hold and align cylindrical parts as they’re moved in staggered pairs along the belt. We suggested to the customer a ribbed-belt configuration on a single conveyor, which allowed them to save floor space — and avoid the cost of...
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Tabletop Feet and Extender Options for Mini-Mover Conveyor

Tabletop feet have become a popular accessory for Mini-Mover Conveyors in bench-top applications. These sturdy, rubber-bottomed feet keep the unit stable on the surface, yet completely portable. The feet alone can bring the conveyor up to about 3″ max from the bench surface in most cases. But if a little more height is needed, the...
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Inclined LP Conveyor Saves Scientists Some Backaches

Sometimes, small changes in a work sequence can save operators a lot of aches and pains. This application uses an inclined LP Series conveyor in a semi-automatic packaging system in the company’s R & D lab. Before the conveyor was added, the operators had to manually place the pallet on the top belt or push...
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Lite Conveyor in Electrical Engineering Lab

Lite Series conveyors are being used in a college electrical engineering lab, as part of a PLC/LabView training system (as shown below). The student’ programming goal is to perform the following sequence: First, the main tank on the far left is to fill the other two tanks (Tank 1 and Tank 2 respectively, in purple)....
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RTA and LP Surge for bottle sort & coding – video

From product assembly to visual inspection to container laser coding, a combination of LP Series conveyor and RTA set up with surge function, allow this lab to automate the most time-consuming section of its process.
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Money Saving “Gizmo” uses Ingenuity & 6 LP Conveyors

In a custom quality-control system nicknamed “Gizmo,” developed by Post-Logix, six LP Series conveyors help guide cabinet doors though a bar-code reader. The reader scans each cabinet’s UV bar-code to gather dimensional details, product details and quality conformance. By March 2017, Gizmo had so far scanned 150,000 doors. Already, it has helped the cabinetry company...
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Auto Parts Get Hosed, with Specially-Cleated LP Series Conveyor

This automotive parts manufacturer need a faster, automated way to get these tubes into and out of the washing station, through tight available space, without parts rolling off into machinery. Solution: Join the discharge section of the machining cell to the washing station via a 2-inch wide LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor equipped with two longitudinal cleats,...
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Bag Labeling with Lite Series Conveyor

Automating a bag labeling operation became much simpler by adding this Lite Series Mini-Mover Conveyor to the system.  
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Portable Mini-Mover “Bakery” … for Testing Well Done

Every Mini-Mover conveyor is fully tested and “burned-in” for a minimum of fours hours before we pass inspection on it and get it ready to ship to a customer. To ensure uninterrupted testing time, we’ve devised portable stack racks fit into limited spaces to better allocate shop-floor space. The rack shown in the video holds...
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