Category: Small Conveyor

April 28, 2015 Using sensor-positioning indexing, this Mini-Mover Liter Series conveyor is the core of a high-volume LED tester system. In less than 8 seconds, the tester verifies all LEDs are working, all connectors are present, the bar-code is correct and the board is delivering the correct color-temperature light. The tester automatically sorts good and bad boards after testing, stops if...
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March 17, 2015 Imagine a telephone conversation in which you’re trying to describe the smell of ocean breeze to someone who’s never been to the seashore. Or the taste of a mango to someone who’s never eaten one. It’s often that way when we discuss directions of belt movement in multi-unit conveyor projects with even the...
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December 6, 2013 When we say that Mini-Mover conveyors are highly configurable, we are always pleased when a creative customer designs the perfect real-life illustration. As the star of the entertaining video below, Candy-o-Matic, a demo system created by the industrial automation design team at RT Engineering Corp. of Franklin, MA, demonstrates the engineering ingenuity involved in taking...
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January 13, 2012 Omni-Turn, a manufacturer of CNC lathes and automated feeding and discharge equipment, uses Mini-Mover Conveyors as an economical approach to deliver parts for inspection and insertion into their magazine parts loaders. Small conveyors, such as our Lite Series and LP Series platforms, are easily customized to meet the production flow requirements in the machine shop...
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December 23, 2010 Whipple Mini-Mover’s LP Series small conveyor is now part of in an international gallery display at the Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, UK. In this project, called “Please Empty Your Pockets,” the artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, combined our LP Series conveyor platform with computer hardware and programming developed by Antimodular Research in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Lozano-Hemmer...
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December 13, 2010 Small conveyors from Whipple Mini-Mover provide an ideal component for manufacturers of ink jet printing and coding machines used for medical, food and many other industrial packaging & labeling applications. Shown in this video is a customer’s lab unit, which shows how easily Whipple’s LP Series mini-conveyor incorporates into an OEM solution, to speed our...
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July 19, 2010 Conveyors as Art: it’s not our usual application, but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised to find our Mini-Movers on gallery display. Our customers constantly intrigue us with the creative ways they put our mini-conveyors to use. When Los Angeles artist and sculptor Andrew Dominick first contacted us in fall 2009 about his plans for building...
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January 8, 2010 Package labeling, bar-code scanning and underside inspection are just three of many possible uses for Mini-Mover conveyor with our split-belt & bedplate window option. Our basic mini-conveyor design adapts very readily to numerous special options or custom modifications, in speedy production and delivery time. The unit shown shown below was in burn-in yesterday, and ships...
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January 5, 2010 A vocational training center needed a solution for moving tangled heaps of scrap paper into a large shredder several feel above the shop floor. Being a non-profit organization, their budget was limited. So Whipple Mini-Mover gladly developed this custom two-level unit. We added a few touches to make sure that paper moved smoothly to the...
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December 24, 2009 How do you move hundreds of pounds of live clams and oysters each week, without hurting your shellfish or your workers? Whipple Mini-Mover Conveyors helped solved the problem for an East Coast aquafarmer with this custom washdown incline cleated conveyor.
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