1:2 Conveyor System with Simplistic Divert and Pin-Pull Interlocks

… including 90° curves, portability and wash down ready! Multi-Conveyor recently built a system that transports bagged food products through from one to two lanes of travel. The system features a 2-position manual divert gate and a single pin-pull interlock release that allows disconnect of a portable conveyor for relocation. The fixed position 8” wide…

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Ultra-Controlled Custom Stainless 24VDC MDR

… with curves, rotation and wash down! Brilliant. Multi-Conveyor recently built this multi-sectional stainless steel, wash down rated, 24VDC MDR (motor driven roller), conveyor system for a food application.  The system is a combination of straight running and curved MDR with an incorporated 90° case turner and pop-up reject section. The customer required maximum product…

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Conveyors for Building & Construction Materials

Perfect for extremely wide, long or heavy loads. Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of mild-steel, plastic belt conveyors to transport elongated building construction materials.  In one section, the customer requested to divert the product to the left or to the right on command for stacking purposes. Multi-Conveyor engineers designed a 5-sweep pop-up powered divert, using…

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Gap, Rotate, Transport and Right Angle Transfer

… corrugated tray carriers from heat tunnel to palletizer. Multi-Conveyor  recently built a series of four plastic belt conveyors designed to gap, rotate, transport and right angle transfer single lane, wrapped, corrugated trays of canned goods. The trays discharge wide-side leading from an existing heat tunnel onto the first conveyor that increases the gap between…

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Pivoting Wire Belt “Dump Conveyor” for Bakery Rejects

Multi-Conveyor recently built a 9-foot by 42-inch sanitary food-grade stainless steel wire belt conveyor with a pivoting discharge end.  The pivot is used to dump batches of rejected bakery product from proceeding down the line. Replacing an existing transport conveyor, this section was engineered to retrofit seamlessly into the customer’s current production layout. In the…

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Seven Technologies – Two Cartoners – One Case Packer

… using Slug Accumulation, Micropitch & 90°Transfers, Curves and much more Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of independently powered conveyors to reorient various size cartons of product for inspection, fed from two cartoners, merging to a single case packer.  Wide-side leading product end transfers from the cartoners, then rotate 90° in orientation, merges to a…

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Two Systems, Eight Lanes – No Problem For Irregular Shaped Automotive Parts

Multi-Conveyor recently built two identical 20-foot long, four-lane timing belt conveyors for an automotive component manufacturer to move individual parts prior to the paint process.  Each conveyor has four lanes of 1.5-inch wide stainless steel reinforced timing belts with vertical and horizontal adjustments. George Packard, Account Manager at Multi-Conveyor, explains, “This is a  four-lane timing…

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Discover Packaging and Processing Solutions

See New Technologies, Materials and Machinery in Action PACK EXPO International is the most efficient and effective way to discover packaging and processing solutions for over 40 vertical markets. For more information and to register, visit packexpointernational.com. Please link to: https://www.packexpointernational.com The event showcases entire production line solutions and offer attendees everything needed to compete…

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Who Knew Product Settling Was This Simple?

Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of six settling (or vibrating) conveyors to facilitate product settling of filled, open-flap corrugated cases. Single lane product will end transfer on and off again in various sections of the customer’s existing line. Tim Bori, Project Manager at Multi-Conveyor, said, “We built a series of basic settling conveyors to vibrate…

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Hygienic Flush Grid Conveyor System Moves Product from Oven to Freezer

Multi-Conveyor recently built a high-level hygienic 48” wide, flush grid and side flexing plastic conveyor belt solution to replace an existing wire belt system – while satisfying the customer’s need for a far more sanitary constructed conveyor in the process. Product discharges in multiple lanes from the customer oven to the Multi-Conveyor infeed. Rows uniformly…

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The Case for Chain Drift Parallel Transfer: Including a Simplistic 2-to-1 Combiner

Multi-Conveyor recently built a set of sanitary food-grade conveyors that combine dual lanes of cup-size containers to feed an existing metal detector. The first conveyor section starts at an existing filler discharge that transfers dual lane product on 6.5-inch centers.  The two lanes travel through a 90-degree curve on side flexing chain, set at precise…

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The Killer Brownie® Co. Gets a Killer Conveyor

Product Turning Conveyance Boosts Throughput When a brownie is trademarked, and has its own social media network – you know it’s a big deal! In fact, the Mayne family knew they were onto something special from the second they added The Killer Brownie to the bakery lineup at their Dorothy Lane Market in Dayton, Ohio…

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Over-Under Conveyance Connects Complex Packaging Lines in Tight Spaces

Multi-Conveyor recently built a complex, yet small footprint, custom conveyor system that uses a servo transpositor retract and two stacked servo merges to transport bags of chicken from three baggers to two case packers, with X-ray scans in the process. Watch the brief video as Jim Paulsen, Account Manager, explains from the floor at Multi-Conveyor,…

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Hot-Fill Glass Jar Inversion Conveyor with Missing Cap Reject

Multi-Conveyor recently built a system to replace a manual hot-fill-jar-inversion process while providing optimum cooling time after the capper for a multiple product and jar sizes canning line at a renowned family-owned produce manufacturer in northern Wisconsin. Single-lane filled glass jars exit an existing capper in upright orientation, then side transfer at the Multi-Conveyor infeed…

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High-Speed Curve Control for Food Tray Stability with Insert-Roller Side Flex Belting Assist

Multi-Conveyor recently built a massive system for a globally-recognized food manufacturer. The system included two tandem conveyor sections that required tray stability through high-powered 90-degree degree turns. Filled food trays are transported to the infeed end of each conveyor. Each line also discharges into a palletizer infeed which requires positive forward product movement with occasional…

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Elevated Conveyor Conserves Critical Floor Space

Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of powered mild steel conveyors including a unique gravity conveyor to transport tall, shaped plastic products. Products are robotically placed on a 5 feet high dual-lane conveyor where they index through a product forming process, then incline to an ultimate height of nearly 8 feet. The product proceeds at this…

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Massive Lane Accumulation of 40+ Yards of Product

Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of mild steel constructed conveyors for varying height and width products that travel through dual belt merge, enclosed pneumatic diverts, massive lane accumulation, combiners, single file technology and more. A brief video on Multi-Conveyor’s website shows a small section of the line using demo product starting at the 2:1 dual…

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Multi-Converyor’s Modsort Roller-Top Belt Integration

Multi-Conveyor introduced its Multi-Conveyor systems incorapted with ModSort® technology by System Plast®. The ModSort can transfer, sort, divert, left justify, and right justify, and it works with all shapes and sizes. Key features of the ModSort by System Plast reportedly include: easy integration, programmable, no noise, low voltage and safety. The ModSort reportedly uses a System…

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Dual Lane Hand Pack to Single File Merge Maximizes Production

Multi-Conveyor recently built a dual lane hand-pack line, made up of a series of small conveyor sections, all joined by seamless transfers, that manually feed a new merging section to further semi-automate for this customer. These mild steel constructed conveyors will transport individual trays that will be hand-packed into cases. The new merge section will…

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