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  • Vibrating Subfloor Prevents Buildup in Conveyor Discharge Chutes

    Vibrating Subfloor Prevents Buildup in Conveyor Discharge Chutes

    The Martin Vibrating Dribble Chute prevents carryback released by secondary conveyor belt cleaners from sticking to the rear slope of the discharge chute. If left to build up, material can encapsulate secondary cleaners and deposit harmful carryback onto the return side of the belt, fouling idlers, and pulleys. The Vibrating Dribble Chute uses material disruption…

  • Pizza Producer Turns to Belt Technologies for Perforated Metal Conveyor Belt Solution

    Belt Technologies recently provided a solution for a producer of frozen pizzas using automated belts. The pizza producer had been purchasing solid, endless, stainless steel metal conveyor belts from the Agawam-based metal conveyor belt manufacturer, but the belts were breaking and warping when exposed to the high temperatures of the pizza cooking process. When Belt…

  • Portable Electric Conveyor Oven uniformly dries alloy steel parts.

    Portable Electric Conveyor Oven uniformly dries alloy steel parts.

    LEWCO recently delivered a 350°F electric conveyor oven for drying various alloy steel parts after a washing process. Completely drying the parts before they went to the next step in the manufacturing process was critical. This created a challenge for the customer in the past because the parts are inconsistent in shape and wet on…

  • Precisely synchronize conveyor belts and robots

    Precisely synchronize conveyor belts and robots

    An increasing number of processes in production lines require synchronization with conveyor belts. Ensuring the high levels of speed and precision needed to accomplish this previously required highly complex control solutions. Production lines with conveyor belt tracking have an advantage: Since the production process never comes to a stop, they can achieve higher production volumes.…

  • Industrial uses of Conveyor belts

    Industrial uses of Conveyor belts

    Before the advancement in technology, labor was used to transport material and goods in the manufacturing industry. People were responsible for carrying these products from one place to another using some kind of mobile transportation device. This method of transportation was susceptible to a number of risks namely deterioration of products, miss handling and many…

  • Kitten on Conveyor Belt at Recycling Plant Plucked to Safety

    Kitten on Conveyor Belt at Recycling Plant Plucked to Safety

    A kitten was discovered amid trash on a speeding conveyor belt at a recycling facility in California but it was plucked to safety by an operator moments before reaching a compactor. Cal-Waste loader operator Tony Miranda told KCRA-TV he was busy sorting the recycling at the facility in Galt when the newborn was spotted with…

  • Clueless traveler mistakenly climbs onto luggage x-ray conveyor belt

    Clueless traveler mistakenly climbs onto luggage x-ray conveyor belt

    Flying these days can involve quite a bit of hassle at the security line, but most experienced travelers know the system–shoes and bags on the belt, body through the screener. However, one traveler caught on a CCTV camera in Chengdu, China probably could have used a little extra help navigating the x-ray machine process. A…

  • Conveyor belt plan for Fremantle port

    Conveyor belt plan for Fremantle port

    Professor Newman believes the technology, developed in Belgium, would allow containers to be unloaded from ships in a new outer harbour — which could operate without expensive port infrastructure. The conveyor belt could take containers to a freight transfer station at nearby Latitude 32 — 1400ha of industrial land in Kwinana. The belt would be…

  • New sheep conveyor belt multi-tasking in Marlborough

    New sheep conveyor belt multi-tasking in Marlborough

    A new portable sheep conveyor system is in operation in Marlborough to save farmers time and money. The $60,000 machine, designed and built by Southland engineering firm, Redan Engineering, has been picked up by The Vet Centre in Blenheim. It received a favourable review after being given a trial run for condition scoring 1000 composite…

  • A New Generation of Conveyor-Belt Sushi

    Restaurants like the ones in the video above represent a collision between Japan’s past and its future. Their owners know that scale and efficiency can be the difference between success and failure, and when you add Japan’s technological innovation, it’s no surprise you wind up with intensely modern restaurant chains offering the next generation of…