Category: LP (Low Profile) Mini Conveyors

May 1, 2018 Ensure the exact same, simultaneous belt speed from a row of conveyors by ganging them on a single gearmotor and speed controller. This capability is essential for metal and plastic stamping and forming equipment. Our Mini-Mover Lite and LP Series conveyors are popular for their reliability and durability in these environments. The configuration shown in...
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April 17, 2018 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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April 3, 2018 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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March 20, 2018 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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March 6, 2018 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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January 9, 2018 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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December 12, 2017 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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October 31, 2017 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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October 17, 2017 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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September 19, 2017 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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