Camco modular conveyors provide flexibility

Precision link conveyors provide designers and engineers with a multiple-station chassis for the assembly of more complicated products. Conveyors up to 40 feet long can provide as many as 320 workstations for a special-purpose assembly machine. The new Modular Tabletop Conveyor Series offers significant advantages to machine builders and end users:

• Standard footprint for three sizes of precision links. For the 3-inch, 4.5-inch and 6-inch links, the overall width of the conveyor is approximately 13.5 inches. This width accommodates various models of IMC’s linear (LPP) and rotary (RPP) parts handlers.
• Standard incremental lengths of 18 inches per module. Designers and users can now plan and build a conveyor to a custom length using the 18-inch modules. The drive and take-up ends both are 18 inches; minimum length on the straightaway is 36 inches.
• Modules facilitate quick planning, layout drawings, pricing and manufacturing. Conveyors are assembled to order using standard pre-manufactured components, providing quick delivery lead times.
• Other standard features include a pattern of tapped holes along the length of the conveyor to receive custom or standard tooling plates and an open backbone to allow electrical, pneumatic and mechanical components to pass through the conveyor. Central and offset jackshafts can be added easily.

To learn more about Camco Modular Conveyors, call your IMC sales representative today.

The brochure and drawings for the Modular Conveyor can be downloaded from our website.

Choose the right motor for the job

Permanent magnet DC motors have traditionally been the choice for cycle-on-demand indexer applications. Their inherent low inertia, combined with simple controls that provide voltage/speed variation and dynamic brake resistors, have been in use for decades. Their one disadvantage is brush wear.

New developments in AC variable frequency controls, along with lower manufacturing costs, allow engineers to specify AC solutions that eliminate the brush wear problem. IMC offers several models of variable-frequency AC cycling controls that provide cycling rates up to 60 cycles (starts and stops) per minute. Additional advantages include PLC functions local to the control that can be used to provide velocity, emergency stop and current overload stop commands, as required.

Call your IMC sales representative today for more information on these new IM-pAC® AC motor and control packages