Category: LP (Low Profile) Mini Conveyors
Where There Are Robots, There Are Conveyors
Meet Ethyl (at 0:18 sec.), Roxy (at 0:40 sec.) and Rocky (at 1:17 sec.) — Vanamatic’s collaborative robots, which incorporate Mini-Mover LP Series conveyors. These in-house-engineered robots integrate multiple functions to improve throughput, remove repetitive motions, increase worker safety and good ergonomics, save labor and boost product quality. Vanamatic Company of Delphos, Ohio, is an...
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Splat! Unusual Lab Tests for Mini-Mover LP
We can only surmise that some folks really, really have fun at their jobs. This Mini-Mover Lite serves as “ammo loader” for paint cartridges, in lab tests undertaken by a major auto maker. The small, bullet-shaped paint cartridges need to be aligned perfectly, from side to side and in close separation distance — so we...
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Multi-Lane Mini-Mover Lite Series, with Indexing
Add a Lite Series conveyor with multi-lanes to your indexed inspection/coding cell, and you’ve saved a lot of time and space while gaining control over product behavior as it moves through the cell and to the next station.
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Multi-Lanes Boost Product Control on Mini-Mover Conveyors
Mini-Mover conveyors easily adapt to product handling needs that benefit from multiple lanes along a single conveyor length. By subdividing the conveying surface, the user gains precise and space-saving product control for actions such as product separation, sorting, coding, inspection and more. We’ve fitted out Mini-Mover Lite and LP Series conveyors with both fixed and...
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Miniaturized Product Displays for Trade Shows, with Mini-Mover Conveyors
When our customer (or customer’s client) has a huge product or concept to demonstrate at a trade show, our Mini-Mover conveyors come in very handy when building functional, miniaturized displays. This video, taken at a recent agricultural expo, uses an LP Series conveyor to help show how a soil-treatment delivery system is used.
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LP Conveyors in Mini-Demo for High-Speed Spectrometer
Here are a pair of LP Series conveyors used in a miniature demo system built to simulate a process environment. This demo shows the rapid scan rate of the Ocean FX spectrometer, made by Ocean Optics of Florida. With onboard processing and Ethernet communications, Ocean FX is ideal for at-line and in-line color measurements, high-speed plastics...
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UBC Geography Study To Aid Urban Planners
We’re always interested in how our conveyors can help in university research projects. In this case, the project seems much more interesting than the conveyor! Here we have a geography study at the University of British Columbia, with an LP Series conveyor slowly dropping particles into a water stream. But what these experiments will accomplish,...
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LP Series Conveyor in Miniature Reject Station with PLC Trainers
This LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor is an integral part of a miniature reject station in Automation Nth’s employee and customer Training Center. The reject station is used to simulate a few of the challenges that controls engineers may face in an actual conveying applications. The company’s controls engineers have the opportunity to connect any one...
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Punch Press Operation with LP Series Mini-Mover
Sheet metal punch press operation goes a little more efficiently with an LP Series Mini-Mover in this HVAC manufacturer’s facility. After shearing and initial punch shown here, the sheets are stacked for staging to the next operation.
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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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