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| ::Full marks To Crown Conveyors Solution From Michael's Pitta Bread 214 views |
| “Crown Conveyors were very good and willing to listen to what I wanted from the machinery" |
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| Crown Conveyors managed to tick all the right boxes when asked to come up with a conveying solution for Michael’s Pitta Bread, with the engineer willing to recommend the Bristol based conveyor company to anyone after an excellent solution and installation. Steve West, engineer at Michael’s Pitta Bread, was looking for a fresh approach to their converging needs, with an emphasis on durability and value, and specifically for transferring finished pitta bread packs from three across narrow edge leading at the outfeed of the Multivac and feed them onto a metal detector conveyor in single file evenly spaced. “Crown Conveyors were very good and willing to listen to what I wanted from the machinery, rather than what they may have made previously,” said Steve. The solution from Crown Conveyors was to supply four off converging conveyors consisting of three parallel lanes of plastic modular belt each 1,500 mm overall length. The three lanes run at different speeds with the middle lane running fastest. This accelerates the middle pack ahead of the outer packs. The outer lanes also run at different speeds allowing one pack to get ahead of the other. Staggered guides plough the outer packs towards the middle lane producing one single stream of packs. Supply control systems for the system consisted of three inverters and all necessary controls mounted in a stainless steel enclosure, with Up/down stream interfacing. The operator controls consist of start and stop buttons with speed adjustment via the inverters. The benefits of this system is that the plastic modular belt will resist the sideways force exerted by the packs as they are ploughed sideways providing a robust solution to the current problem of belt damage. The control philosophy is based simply on the speed differential between the lanes. “The general build and quality of the equipment looks fantastic, but of course, only time will tell. Crown Conveyors were excellent all along, beating the lead time quoted on build. I would recommend Crown Conveyors to anyone and also hope we can do future business ourselves,” Steve concluded. For more information about Crown Conveyors products and services contact: Tara Hawker Tel: +44 (0)117 967 1370 Fax: +44 (0)117 935 3194 Email: mail@crownconveyors.com Web: www.crownconveyors.com |
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| 2010-07-16 |
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