Elevator Hoppers
Elevator Hoppers
There are many benefits to incorporating elevator hoppers into your feeding system.
Elevators keep machine operators safe by reducing load heights and eliminating platforms and ladders; they allow machine operators to be more productive by increasing the time between machine interactions, and they let your feed system run at maximum efficiency by providing a consistent part level in the bowl feeder.
An elevator hopper serves as the bulk storage device and delivers small quantities of the parts on-demand to a step elevator belt.
This allows the motor to move the parts easily and prevents premature wear to the belt.
If your project requires extended run times with heavy and sharp parts, ask MULTIFEED about incorporating an Elevator Hopper.
The elevators with belt or metal slat band chain receive the parts in bulk and channel them to the vibratory bowl feeder which is supplied through discrete direct unloading thanks to a level control fitted in the bowl, to position the parts.
In our implementations, we mostly use these equipment units for the autonomy function of the feeding system, as an alternative to manually loading parts into the circular vibrators and also to avoid overloading the vibratory bowl feeder, since that would hinder its optimal operation.
DIFFERENT USES AND OPTIONS
The transport element of the hopper elevator works with several options, which can be a synthetic belt or a slat-band chain, with ribs or closed receptacles.
On the other hand, the driving element is an electric motor which, associated to a reducer, transmits the desired revolutions to the roller, drive sleeve or driving pinion, which drives the corresponding belts or slat-band chain, transporting on it the required parts.
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