conveyor motor

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 a factory or warehouse, moving material usually requires an electric motor. The belt that takes raw material into the plant, the roller line carrying products from station to st... More Details

The last metres of a production line usually belong to packaging machines. The product is weighed, filled, closed, labelled, cased, palletised and wrapped before shipping. Each of ... More Details

On a belt conveyor the motor does not drive the belt directly but through a gear reducer. So when a conveyor motor is replaced, the real question is not "how many kW" but "will the... More Details

Sand, chippings and gravel coming out of crushers and screens wait in separate piles in the open yard until they are sold or shipped. The machine that builds these piles is the sto... More Details

Mixed packaging waste or household waste is tipped into a sorting plant by truck; at the outlet, paper, plastic types, metal and glass have been collected separately. The line that... More Details

A belt conveyor works by an endless rubber or PVC belt, tensioned between two pulleys, running over carrying idlers. The belt carries the material, and what moves the belt is frict... More Details

A screw conveyor pushes powder, granules and fine-grained material with a helical screw turning inside a closed trough or tube. It does not carry the material on top like a belt; t... More Details

A bucket elevator lifts bulk materials such as grain, feed, cement, clinker and aggregate using buckets fixed to a belt or chain running inside a vertical casing. What sets it apar... More Details

Lines that carry cartons, pallets, crates or sheet bundles one by one usually rely on driven rollers or chains instead of a belt. This page covers the three-phase motor that drives... 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 shrink wrapping machine encloses a product or a group of products in heat-shrinkable film: the film is first placed around the product and sealed, then the pack passes through a ... More Details

The pores, cracks and natural voids of marble and travertine slabs are filled with resin before polishing; on granite and fragile marbles a mesh is often bonded to the back face wi... More Details

In a stone plant, a slab changes place many times between leaving the block and entering the crate: from the gang saw to calibration, from polishing to cutting to size, then on to ... 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

However powerful the shredder, crusher or baler in a recycling plant, throughput drops if the material reaching it is irregular. The conveyors that carry material to the machine, d... More Details

In a food plant the product travels from the point where raw material is received to the machine that closes the pack on a chain of short conveyors joined end to end. This page cov... More Details

If a conveyor will not start under load, the first step is not to fit a bigger motor or change the gear ratio but to find out what is preventing the start. In most cases the proble... More Details

Selecting a motor for a roller conveyor rests on three questions: at what speed the line will flow, what load the rollers will carry with what friction, and by which route the driv... More Details

Before choosing the motor for a crate conveyor, two things need to be clear: how many crates must pass per hour, and whether stopping of the line is to be handled by the motor or b... More Details