Conveying
and match power because they know how to do the job and when a berm broke, water
give us what we need. This help frees me up to work on other filled the quarry floor
aspects of a project.” covering dozens of
And Parsons says while other companies may offer packages, products.
they are not as complete as those offered by Baldor. “Other “I sent a list of all the
companies try to package equipment, but it ends up coming in equipment that needed to
several boxes and we still have to put most of it together,” be replaced to System-1
explains Parsons. “Others just don’t offer the same level of and they began to
service, plus, other companies can’t compete with the quality of immediately locate all of
Baldor, Dodge and Reliance products.” the products we needed,”
Parsons says his close working relationship with the System-1 say Parsons. “It was a real
team was a critical part of recovering and getting back on team effort and we quickly
schedule after the Marble Falls Quarry was flooded prior to got everything delivered to
completion. Nearly 21 inches of rain fell over several hours, and the job site so we could
still meet the project
deadlines. Because we
worked together, we got
the job done.”
Pre-engineered drive and tail conveyor
assemblies are delivered on pallets to
According to Crisp, the
job sites, saving time and money
willingness of the System-1
team to work so closely with his company to keep the project on
track after the flood is just one more example of why he
chooses to work with Baldor. He describes the completed
project as a tremendous success – a success that is shared by
both companies.
“The Marble Falls project has been a great project for all of
us,” says Crisp. “I’ve been in the business more than 30 years
and I think I’m a pretty good judge of operations, and I feel that
this is a very nice plant. But more importantly, Capitol
Aggregates tells us that they are very pleased and proud of this
facility.”
System-1 services in Europe are managed via Baldor's Cologne
Crisp Industries selected the Dodge Mine Duty Extra pulley and Dodge
office. You can contact then on tel: +49 2234 379410 or email:
TAF bearing for this primary conveyor at Capitol Aggregates' Marble
Falls quarry
sales.de@baldor.com
No porky pies
A Spiroflow aero-mechanical conveyor has been in operation at a polyurethane disks attached to a wire rope. The rope and disks
famous manufacturer of Pork Pies since February 2002. The travel in a continuous loop at high speed within parallel steel
conveyor was installed as part of an improvement to the way tubes. At each end there are enclosed housings within which
that gelatine granules are transferred to the mixers. the rope assembly runs
The 2.4 metre long Spiroflow aero-mechanical conveyor from one tube to the other
operates at 60 degrees and has an integral sack tip feed hopper. around specially designed
It is used to transfer 25kg bags of gelatine into either of the two sprockets. One of the
mixers that produce the gelatine which is filled into the space sprockets drives the rope
between the pork filling and its pie casing. The introduction of and disks while the other
the conveyor has significantly improved the efficiency of the provides tension to the rope.
gelatine production process. The high speed of the disks
The Spiroflow aero-mechanical conveyor supplied to the produces an air stream that
customer is of 316 grade stainless steel construction. The fluidizes and entrains
integral feed hopper has a mesh grill to enable bags of material product in an airflow until it
to be opened and tipped with ease. The conveyor and its feed is centrifugally ejected at the
hopper are mounted on a mobile frame so that it can be moved outlet.
from one mixer to another and away from both to be washed For more information
down periodically. To facilitate internal washing, the conveyor is contact Spiroflow on tel:
complete with a drain plug. +44 (0)1200 422525 or visit:
Aero-mechanical conveyors comprise several evenly spaced www.spiroflow.com
Conveyor and the two mixers it feeds
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