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13 May 2013

Twiflex on Mine Hoist Brakes

Tags: Mine Hoist Brakes, Mining Magazine, Taking the Strain

by Carly Lovejoy Editor, Mining Magazine

Excerpted From Taking the Strain

Over the past 20-30 years, the main technological development in brakes for mine hoists has been the replacement of less efficient drum brakes with hydraulic disc brakes.

These offer many advantages and, along with the introduction of AC motors for soft starting/stopping plus advances in control systems, brake components have become smaller (due to reduced stresses) with longer life cycles. As a result, there are significant cost savings associated with brake design, installation and maintenance. Read Article

06 May 2013

Application Profile: Triple Reduction 800 Series Speed Reducers For Vertical Lift Arm Chain Conveyor

Tags: Speed Reducers, Vertical Lift

A textile fabricator needed an economic solution that utilized a small footprint to lift and load packaged rolls into a shipping rack. The lift would replace a fork truck operator who would wait and load each roll into shipping racks as they reached the end of the conveyor line.

A custom vertical lift arm chain conveyor that automatically loads the shipping rack with the packaged rolls was provided by Omni Metalcraft Corp. Read Article

29 Apr 2013

Application Profile: AsepticDrive™ Motors for Bakery Tray Cleaning Machine

Tags: aseptic motor, stainless steel, washdown

Precisma, a major European manufacturer of high quality equipment used in commercial bakery operations, recently optimized their most popular baking tray cleaning machine. The machine incorporates two sets of innovative rotating belt brushes that remove flour, sesame and poppy seed residues as well as dough remnants from contoured baking trays. Read Article

22 Apr 2013

BG Series Gear Motors For Annealing Furnace Conveyors

Tags: BG Series, Gearing

Georgsmarienhütte GmbH (GMH), a leading European steel supplier with over 1,400 employees, recently installed a new annealing furnace at their mill located just outside of Osanbrück, Germany. GMH had originally envisioned using servo geared motors to drive the new furnace’s upstream and downstream conveyor systems. Dirk Faber, Bauer sales representative, immediately pointed out the considerably higher costs of the servo solution to GMH. Read Article

19 Apr 2013

Altra Industrial Couplings manufactures bespoke grid coupling for 10,000 tonne press pump

Tags: Coupling, Pumps

The grid coupling of a large water pump at Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd. (S.F.E.L.) was coming to the end of its operational life. To avoid costly re-engineering of the pump S.F.E.L. wanted to commission a bespoke coupling to match the original’s footprint. While most suppliers were unable to produce a coupling to the right size, Altra Industrial Couplings was able to match the design of the original and work in partnership with S.F.E.L. to produce it. Read Article