Tom Murphy

In July 2011  Dorner introduced the new eDrive program for their conveyor  belt range which  included a new family of energy efficient gear reducers. To help customers  transition to the new reducers for their conveyor  belts in the  aftermarket parts arena, Dorner developed eDrive retrofit kits to enable the  easy installation of these new gear reducer to existing drive mount...

Quoted this week for a large parcel  carrier.  Gravity  conveyors X 30pcs with zinc plated steel rollers and high sides to the  frames. The customer has requested that we offer a special version of our  standard gravity  conveyor but with extended framework structure. Most gravity roller conveyors have  side frames below the rollers. Sometimes the customer requires that the side ...

With Flexmove slat conveyors the individual lanes can be  positioned very close to each other. When the conveyors are placed so close, it  makes it much easier to transfer products from one lane on a slat conveyor to the other than for  alternative types of conveyor where bearing housings and other conveyor parts  get in the way. This close lane...

This week we have added a link to  Dorner's conveyor CAD design facility to  the home page of the AS Conveyor Systems website. Using this link our customers  can now design and specify in detail their Dorner belt  conveyor. In addition to this they can request  a CAD drawing of the conveyor in multiple CAD and other formats. This allows...

Dorner have a  standard design for a conveyor  belt lift gate. This device, based on and employing standard Dorner  aluminium profile based conveyor  belts allows the user to access areas on the production line by lifting part  of the conveyor and walking through the conveyor path, closing the gate behind  to re-start the line. The basic lift gate concept uses ...

When managing the movement of  pallets on a pallet  conveyor, a 90 degree change in direction can be an issue to be overcome in  various ways and AS Conveyor Systems have a few options. One way would be to have a bend, but  with chain driven pallet  conveyors this can be a problem technically and in addition, the bend can ...

One of the neat features of Flexmove plastic  chain conveyors is that the individual lanes can be positioned very close to  each other. When the conveyors are placed so close, it makes it much easier to  transfer products from one lane on plastic  slat conveyorsto the other than for alternative types of conveyor where  bearing housings and other conveyor parts...

New from Dorner conveyors and  available from AS Conveyor systems, are 2200 series conveyor belts  with a modular plastic belt and centre drive. The centre drive on this conveyor belt  system has many benefits. The centre drive can be positioned  almost anywhere along conveyor frame. The centre drive frees up both ends of  conveyor for operator and machine  interface. The...

AS Conveyor Systems will shortly  publish full details of an expanded range of belt  conveyor bends on their website. "Conveyor belt bends have always  been available from AS Conveyor Systems but these new options will broaden the  offering for our customers" said Tom Murphy,  Director. "The new conveyors will have both  stainless and mild steel construction, to add to the...

Flexmove have just introduced driven  bridge modules for it's range of slat conveyors. Sometimes when 2 plastic chain  conveyors meet end to end there is a gap between the drive end of one slat  conveyor ant the tail end of another. This is due to the larger drive and  tail end sprocket diameters that these conveyors usually  have. This situation...