Equipment Round Up: Conveying

Fast and versatile
AquaGard is a stainless steel conveyor that offers maximum flexibility for a wide variety of products and applications while increasing throughput and reducing product loss. The new platform was rigorously designed to deliver industry-leading speeds, best-in-class transfers and ease of automation to the bakery, snack food and confectionary markets. It’s also suitable for select applications within the fruit, vegetable, non-protein ready-to-eat, pharmaceutical, medical and personal care markets. This conveyor is a pre-engineered, standard product so it eliminates the cost, long lead times and risk associated with custom conveyors.
Dorner Mfg. Corp.; Hartland, Wis.
800-397-8664; www.dorner.com

Precise product delivery
FastBack Revolution distributes proportional quantities of product to multiple locations without cutting off the main product supply. The machine’s gate can adjust to precisely deliver very small or very large quantities of product to weighers, bagmakers and seasoning applicators. Unlike slide gates, the rotating cylindrical gate has no pinch points to break product or cause injuries when the gate closes. It uses no pneumatics and can be easily removed for quick cleaning. The leak-proof construction reduces the risk of cross product contamination.
Heat and Control Inc.; Hayward, Calif.
800-227-5980; www.heatandcontrol.com

Lower the drawbridge
The unique Drawbridge Conveyor enables a conveyor line to cross an automated storage and retrieval system crane aisle. The design allows products to bypass a storage area, even while conveying through it, directly to the shipping dock. Even when lowered, cranes can run in the aisle because sensors on the cranes tell them to avoid the “gray area” the conveyor uses. Plus, it’s fast — it pivots to a nearly vertical position in approximately 30 seconds. It can be used in any area where transportation traffic is crossing the material flow processes.
Westfalia Technologies Inc.; York, Pa.
800-673-2522; www.westfaliausa.com

Use less power
The Tex-Flex Excited Base Vibratory Conveyor utilizes a single, maintenance-free rotary electric vibrator. It is mounted to an isolated conveyor frame to energize the leaf springs supporting the conveyor pan to produce the maximum conveying action with minimal power requirements. For most applications, the power requirement is less than 1 hp. The rotary electric vibrator is inverter-driven, allowing easy adjustment of conveyor speed and has adjustable eccentric weights allowing the force output and resulting conveyor stroke to be easily changed in the field to optimize conveying efficiency. This conveyor is suited for modular packaging distribution.
Triple/S Dynamics; Dallas, Texas
214-828-8604; www.sssdynamics.com

Dust-free delivery
Frequently referred to as a “rope and disk conveyor,” Aero-Mechanical Conveyors are suitable for transporting material from 10 to 85 ft. at rates of up to 120 tons/hour. Benefits include low energy requirements, dust-free transport with minimal product degradation and virtually no separation of mixtures. Besides total batch transport, the conveyors offer contained, dust-free free delivery and operation at any angle, including vertical, at heights up to 85 ft. without any loss in capacity. The system can be set up as a straight-line operation or in variety of around the corner configurations.
Spiroflow Systems; Monroe, N.C.
704-291-9595; www.spiroflowsystems.com