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(8/7/07) Tight turn radius conveyor
Our customer had a problem with a wire belt radius conveyor on their bread
line. When the slicers would back up the un sliced bread would back up the
conveyor line. When the backup would reach the discharge of a radius conveyor
the flights would often catch the loaves of bread causing them to bend.
The bent wire flight would then cause a shutdown of the entire line.
After looking at the system a plastic conveyor belt would be a simple solution to solve this problem. The only problem with the plastic belt was most would not be able to turn a tight enough radius to be able to drop in place of the wire belt conveyor. We could have suggested a replacing the entire conveyor and reposition the line to make enough room for the radius requirements of the plastic belt. After checking with several suppliers of plastic radius belts they told us what we wanted to do could not be done. We did not accept that answer and proceeded to find a supplier who thought our idea might work. After reviewing the situation with engineering support of the belt manufacture we had the green light to proceed. We built a drop in conveyor that had a plastic radius belt and completed the install for the customer. We are pleased to report the customer has had great results with this setup.
(6/25/07) Flour dusters
AES INDUSTRIAL engineered a simple flour duster which can be purchase stand alone or integrated into a conveying system. The simple design can be modified to meet any need you may have. The picture shown below is a dusting system for a processed cheese plant. In this case the customer required a duster to dust slabs of cheeses. The in feed conveyor accumulates sharped block of cheese. The sifting conveyor passes the harped block of cheese under the sifter and stops at the end of the conveyor. The operator then removes a slab of cheese, the sensor then reverses the sifting conveyor back under the sifter for the process to begin again until all the slabs from one block have been "sifted". The in feed conveyor feeds another full harped block to the sifting conveyor. This system demonstrates some options we can provide in house for our own AES INDUSTRIAL sifter.
(4/6/07) Bakery pan return radius conveyor
Our customer had experienced extensive down time and problems with a 180 degree radius conveyor. The radius conveyor was part of a bun pan return line which was constructed from two rows of bakers bend chain using a jack shaft to drive the inner and out line of table top. The customer was looking for a simple solution for this problem with the goal of removing the jack shafts, slaves etc. The solution had to be able to drop in place of the existing conveyor and had to hold up to a hot pan with a temperature around 200 degrees. We proposed the conveyor shown below. This system has been in place for over three years without any of the problems the customer was experiencing. This simple solution has saved them countless hours of down time.
