Category: LP (Low Profile) Mini Conveyors
Video: Mini-Mover Leg Stand Assembly
Leg Stands for Mini-Mover Conveyors are simple to put together. Each leg assembly is shipped disassembled (with any needed tools and hardware). We made this quick “how-to” video to show what comes out of the shipping box, and the few easy steps to completing the stand setup.
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Safety First with Drain Pans
During many machining operations, the cutting fluids can cause drippy, oily parts to load onto the conveyor. When these accumulated fluids spill onto the floor, it’s a safety and a clean-up problem To solve this, Mini-Mover Conveyors offers drain pans that install under the conveyor. These must be installed in the factory, so ensure you...
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Sky-High Metal Stamping Scrap Removal
Here’s Martin Supply’s ingenious solution for metal stamping environmentally-sensitive parts. Scrap removal was the final, labor-intensive hitch for the end-user’s operators. First, robots had been installed on the plant floor’s mezzanine, to stamp parts in isolation from airborne particulates emitted on the plant floor. To get rid of the scrap material, Mini-Mover conveyors were part...
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Automation Protects Your Skilled Workers
In our climate of skilled-labor shortages across the US, it’s just as important for manufacturers to automate for worker safety as well as for productivity. Manufacturing facilities such as high-volume machine shops, packagers, shipping docks and warehouses, have workflows that are very fast-paced. Heavy materials constantly need to be moved, staged, shipped — and far...
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Ease Transition into Automating Ink Jet Printing/Coding
As a small business increases its sales volume, the need to upgrade manual methods for inkjet product labeling or case-coding may seem like a daunting expense. It doesn’t have to be. There are entry-level and mid-level products that can make the switchover affordable. Mini-Mover Conveyors are often used by packaging vendors to complete a case-coding...
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Automated Punch-Press Unloading with LP Series Conveyor
This sheet metal punch press operation runs more efficiently with an LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor in this HVAC manufacturer’s facility. After shearing and initial punch shown here, the sheets are automatically stacked for staging to the next operation. This simple automation step eliminates the need for continuous operator supervision.
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Smooth Transport with Side Guides
Conveyor side guides that properly direct or contain your transported products are essential for smooth operation. Standard Mini-Mover side guides are constructed of aluminum with a brush finish. They are also available with with laminated UHMW product guide surface. Guides may be installed on LP Series conveyors with or without the T-slot profile. They are...
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Smooth Transport with Side Guides
Conveyor side guides that properly direct or contain your transported products are essential for smooth operation. Standard Mini-Mover side guides are constructed of aluminum with a brush finish. They are also available with with laminated UHMW product guide surface. Guides may be installed on LP Series conveyors with or without the T-slot profile. They are...
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Smooth Transport with Side Guides
Conveyor side guides that properly direct or contain your transported products are essential for smooth operation. Standard Mini-Mover side guides are constructed of aluminum with a brush finish. They are also available with with laminated UHMW product guide surface. Guides may be installed on LP Series conveyors with or without the T-slot profile. They are...
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Parts Catchers Protect Precision Machined Parts
Whether they’re called parts catchers or unloaders, these handy additions to a machine cell can protect sensitive parts without constant operator supervision. Mini-Mover Conveyor products, such as our Lite Series or LP Series conveyors, integrate easily into, and onto, machines. When faster cycle times also require an un-manned accumulation strategy, our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA)...
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