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NEW at PACK EXPO CHICAGO - THE LIVE ROLLER MERGE CONVEYOR! Nercon introduces the Live Roller Metering and Merging Conveyor at Pack Expo - International, booth N4136. The Live Roller Conveyor (patent pending) uses a simple concept where the products are "stalled" on the conveyor until they are in proper sequence. An economical solution, products are metered and merged without the use of clamps, stops or sophisticated controls.
The Live Roller Conveyor handles many types of packages including the growing use of formed shell packages, trays and form, fill and seal bags and pouches. Competing metering and merging equipment solutions for handling flexible bags and packages involve sophisticated controls and even servo technology, adding more cost to the equipment investment.
The function of the Live Roller Conveyor starts when product is introduced onto a primary modular plastic belt in which rows of rollers are integrated. The primary belt also has rollerless sections called indexing pockets. Downstream, an exciter belt is set to drive the rollers on the primary belt in a backwards spinning motion. Products float on the roller sections briefly until the rollerless chain plow emerges, putting the product in forward motion traveling on the indexing pocket. Simple plow rails or powered side rails are used to merge multiple lanes into single file.
10 APPLICATIONS SHOWCASED on NERCON's ARB CONVEYOR LOOP 1.Transferring 90 Degrees: No gates or mechanical pushers are needed for an Angled Roller Belt 90 degree transfer. As packages travel into the 90 degree conveyor, the angled rollers control the product traveling on the belt. 2.Sorting: Sortation solutions achieve higher throughput capacity and offer a lower cost of ownership than competiting technologies. 3.Diverting: Traditional pushing arms or moving gates are not needed to divert products with Angled Roller Belt technology. 4.Horizontal Switching: A free spinning roller below the belt rises to engage the angled roller, directing the package to the designated discharge location. 5. Aligning: Rollers in the belt direct packages or cases to one side of the conveyor without the use of additional equipment. 6.Centering: The dual angled rollers will center and align the product in the long axis direction. 7. Bump Turning: The ARB case turner aligns cases uniformly along the rail going into and after the bump turn, which ensures a consistent turn every time. 8.Turning Wheel: With control of the discharge belt, the product can turn true (maintain orientation) or turn and reorient the package 90 degrees. 9.Accumulating: Packages or cases gently accumulate on roller belt conveyors with very low back pressure. 10. Metering: The ARB rollers can be free wheeling or engaged from below for a 200% speed change.
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The New Live-Drum Spiral Conveyor
Nercon has developed a new spiral conveyor system that utilizes a cylindrical drum that assists in driving the modular plastic belt. The benefits of the Live Drum Spiral Conveyor include low belt tension, increased elevation changes and capacity, design and product range versatility and low maintenance.
Regardless of the conveyor length, the rotating stainless steel drum imparts the driving force to the inside edge of the belt creating very low tension on the belt. The benefit of low belt tension allows for exceptionally long runs translating into significantly increased number of tiers. The substantial quantity of conveyor belt in this relatively small footprint offers manufacturers increased production and profitability.
Most products that can be transported on a conveyor can also travel on a Live-Drum Spiral system. The gentle, uniform slope of the Drum Spiral Conveyor assures no disturbance of product flow. This equipment can transport packages such as jars, tubs, cups, bundles, cans, bottles, bags, pouches, cartons, totes and cases.
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Announcing Nercon's New Horizontal Shelf Lowerator
Nercon has developed a lowering solution for the food, baking and confectionery manufacturing industries. The Horizontal Shelf Lowerator is an easily cleanable solution, capable of high elevations with a small footprint.
The Horizontal Shelf Lowerator utilizes a diagonal pin placement in the chain and shelf design that insures the shelves remain horizontal as they travel both horizontally and vertically. The solid stainless steel tray has a spring loaded mechanism for quick removal for cleaning.
Nercon has manufactured the Horizontal Shelf Lowerator to travel between floors at a height of 16 ft. The frame, due to its construction of formed channel modular steel, can offer even greater elevation changes.
The floor print for the Horizontal Shelf Lowerator is 3 ft. x 5 ft. There are few lowering solutions with this level of cleanability that would compare to the relatively small footprint of the Horizontal Shelf Lowerator.
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New 90 Degree Servo Sweep at Pack Expo - International
Nercon introduces a 90 degree Servo Sweep at Pack Expo, Booth N4136. The advantages of utilizing the 90 degree Servo Sweep in a production line are high speed product reorientation and a small footprint.
The servo technology is programmed for the precise motion profile force for reliable, high speed package handling. The overhead Servo Sweep has been engineered by Nercon in packaging production lines to operate at speeds up to 90 products per minute.
Products travel into the Servo Sweep on the long axis of the package and exits from the device traveling on the short axis. The "easy-way to hard-way" reorientation solution has a small footprint compared to competing solutions.
Another advantage of the device is the range of package types that it handles. Serving the food, household, pharmaceutical and health and beauty industries, the Servo Sweep can reorient cartons, trays and sleeved packages.
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NERCON'S SANITARY DESIGN at PACK EXPO - CHICAGO!
At Pack Expo, Nercon is displaying a new Sanitary Conveyor design to help food, dairy and pharmaceutical manufacturers with today's stringent sanitary requirements.
An important feature of this easy-to-clean conveyor design is the ability to quickly and easily remove the conveying surfaces for access. The lift up pulley allows slack in the belt, so the plastic belt can be raised, exposing the inner frame for wash-down. No tools are requird to remove and clean the carry and return wear strips. The clean out ports and extra wide frame design give entry to all areas for cleaning. All motors, bearings and supports are spaced out from the side frame on solid welded stand offs.
With over 30 years experience engineering and manufacturing conveyors for the sanitary handling industry, our sanitary conveyors are 100% welded, ground and polished, built to USDA, FDA, BISSC, 3I or Dairy standards.
NEW SIDE GRIPPER CONVEYORS now available at
MODULAR CONVEYOR EXPRESS
Nercon introduces a pre-engineered Side Gripper Conveyor to the Modular Conveyor Express quick ship conveyor line. The Side Gripper is used for gap transfer, downed bottle elimination and code dating applications. The unit is adjustable to various product widths and is available in mild and stainless steel. At the show, the Side Gripper will be demonstrated handling cartons, and integrated into a conveyor loop with more of Nercon's conveyor and equipment solutions.
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