Tom Murphy

This is a picture of a recent order where the customer required accurate positioning of a product on a conveyor belt system so that processes could be carried out.The precision of the positioning required was such that positioning the product on a normal conveyor belt was not going to be possible. The product was an irregular shape and would not...

 The 1100 Series conveyors from Dorner offer production engineers and machine builders the thinnest standard frame on a mass produced belt conveyor available. It measures just 19mm frame depth and can fit in tight spaces inside machinery and also help free up room for other machines or access by operators. The conveyors have anodised-aluminium frames, FDA-approved plastic bearing housings and...

 Our programme of conveyor belts and conveyor belt systems include a heavy duty range for more harsh applications.One such application was for the Royal mail recently, where a conveyor belt was required to work continuously for 24 hour periods for large parts of the week, every week.The Royal Mail demands that machinery on their sorting lines are very reliable and...

 Sometimes, it's a requirement from our customers to provide a conveyor belt system that's capable of delivering a product in a precise position.This can be important for inspection systems where a vision system looks at the product to ensure compliance. Another example would be where a robot or pick and place system needs to remove the product and expects to...

The new online conveyor belt configurator tool, called as DTools, has now been expanded again and includes the company’s accurate positional conveyor platform – the 2200 Series Precision Move.DTools is a group of easy to use online conveyor design tools designed to help users select, design, configure and apply conveyors belts.It's a new and intuitive 2D and 3D CAD platform that...

 An interesting little picture this week illustrates how small gravity rollers can be used alongside powered rollers to create smooth movement of smaller parts on a roller conveyor.Powered roller conveyors are an economical way to transfer parts. They are often used where an application requires a long run such as packing lines or warehouses.Gravity roller conveyor systems and their powered...

 We recently sold a pallet conveyor system to a local pharmaceutical company for a special handling application.The system was basically to be used for handling small light pallets of plastic trays in a loading area.The pallets full of plastic trays had to loaded by hand and then handed off to another area for despatch.The volume of parts produced and the...

The first pictures are emerging of the new Dorner 1100 conveyor belt system.Among the features of this exciting new conveyor are the new pinch drive design. With patent pending this new option increases the carrying capacity of the conveyor without need for high belt tension.The low belt tension allows Dorner to use miniature rollers for optimal small parts handling.This means...

 Nice order this week for 5 vacuum belt conveyors for a plastics blow molding factory.We've talked before about the issue of stability when a plastic bottle is placed on a belt for onward travel.Often the picking of the bottle from the blow moulding machine is done by a robot or pick and place system.The customer here had the same problem...

 We are happy to announce that soon the next generation of the Dorner conveyor belt internet based design and specifying tools will be introduced.The even more enhanced and improved version will enable the use of all Dorner DTools on tablets as well as PC’s and laptops.This new tablet PC capability will, we believe, the first of it's kind available here...