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C-Trak Case Study on Slow Conveyor running speeds
This project was to manufacture a conveyor that had a low running speed to handling bearings accumulating against a stop.
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Conveyor Design Specification |
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| Product: | Bearings unwrapped 75mm dia x 35mm weight 0.5 kg each |
| Belt Speed: | 0-1.5 m/min v/speed |
| Throughput: | Up to 6 No. bearings at a time |
| Environment: | Wipe down cleaning, some surface oil belt contact |
Flat Belt Conveyor Operation
1 Small slow moving conveyor being 200mm wide x 1800mm long 950mm high supplied with rod type side guides set close to the belt surface and adjustable from 50-200mm; the guides are full length with an open section of 200mm starting 450mm from the infeed end.
The Conveyor was mounted on a box section framework with adjustable bolt-down feet +50mm; the start of the frame from the infeed end is 500mm in.
A shaft mounted, end driven, geared motor drive supplied with variable speed stop/start control was included; the motor and controller are mounted on the Right Hand side viewed from the feed.
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How slow can I run my conveyor?
Conveyor have inverters fitted to adjust the speed of a conveyor you can set to running speeds suitable to your production line and withing the limmits to the conveyor and products to be handled. Please give us a call and we can guide you as to the exact speed you can set your conveyor to run.
This application was for a cheese manufacturer that wanted to incorporate a enrober and chiller into the conveyor line. It was run at a slow speed to give the chiller time to cool the wax coated cheese but had the option of changing the low speed to variable using an inverter.
To look at our general belt conveyors with variable speed please read more here >>