
Conveyor Belt Electric Motors
In most plants, moving material from one point to another is left to a conveyor: crushed stone leaving the quarry, cartons entering a warehouse, wheat rising to a silo or bricks le... More Details

In most plants, moving material from one point to another is left to a conveyor: crushed stone leaving the quarry, cartons entering a warehouse, wheat rising to a silo or bricks le... More Details

The pellet mill is the machine that draws the most electricity in a feed plant. It presses steam-conditioned mash through a perforated ring die and turns it into cylindrical rods; ... More Details

In a concrete plant, the accuracy of the recipe depends on how many kilos of sand and gravel leave the bins. This job is done by the gates under the bins and the weighing belt; the... More Details

In a feed mill, raw material changes place many times: from the weighbridge to the silos, from the silo to the grinder, from the grinder to the mixing bin, then on to the pellet pr... More Details

A roller mill is the machine that turns wheat into flour step by step in a modern flour mill. One roller mill usually has two separate grinding sections; in each section a pair of ... More Details

A plansifter is the large square sifter that separates the mixed stock leaving each passage of a flour mill into flour, semolina and bran. Dozens of stacked sieve frames sit inside... More Details

A bridge saw is a stone machine whose cutting head hangs from a bridge travelling on two side beams; it cuts marble, granite and engineered stone slabs to size. The other machines ... More Details

Brushing, bush hammering and flaming are three different ways of giving a marble or granite slab a textured, non-polished surface: one ages the surface with abrasive brushes, one r... More Details

Green bricks leaving the cutter travel one by one on a belt; before they can enter the kiln they must first be placed on drying racks and, once dry, set onto kiln cars in a fixed p... More Details

A band saw machine cuts wood with a thin saw band whose ends are welded into an endless loop and which runs tensioned between two wheels. For the other machines in the woodworking ... More Details

A wood lathe spins a piece of timber held between two centres or in a chuck; the turner rests a gouge on the tool rest, or a copy attachment moves a knife along a template, to give... More Details

A log splitter separates a log into two or four along the grain, either by pushing it against a wedge or by driving a rotating threaded cone into it. Farms preparing stove and boil... More Details

Lathes, milling machines, drills, saws and grinders work with the same need everywhere, from a small repair shop to a plant turning out series parts: a dependable electric motor th... More Details

A metal lathe turns a workpiece clamped in the chuck and removes chips with a stationary tool, producing cylindrical parts such as shafts, bushes, flanges and gear blanks. Motor pa... More Details

On a universal metal milling machine the cutting tool rotates while the workpiece advances with the table longitudinally, crosswise and vertically; this is how flat faces, slots, k... More Details

A pillar drill makes holes along a vertical axis in a metal part clamped to a fixed table, and also countersinks, reams and taps threads. For other motor pages arranged by industry... More Details

A metal band saw is a workshop machine that runs a thin toothed steel blade over two wheels to cut solid bars, tubes and profiles to length. Applications in other industries are li... More Details