While assembly of sprocket driven conveyor rollers, chain loop formation is a major task. If it involves half lock, then it becomes more tedious For roller conveyors, there is no scope to adjust one of the sprockets. So the only option left is putting precise roller pitch for rollers. Below is quick calculator to help you out. Before Using the Calculator Please note that Chain Pitch and CC of sprocket is in Metric (mm) and not inches So Sprocket Pitch 3/8" = 9.5mm 1/2" = 12.7mm 5/8" = 15.87mm Type of Lock If calculator result = ODD Number = Half Lock Even Number = Full Lock Please provide yo ..read more

While assembly of sprocket driven conveyor rollers, chain loop formation is a major task. If it involves half lock, then it becomes more tedious For roller conveyors, there is no scope to adjust one of the sprockets. So the only option left is putting precise roller pitch for rollers. Below is quick calculator to help you out. Before Using the Calculator Please note that Chain Pitch and CC of sprocket is in Metric (mm) and not inches So Sprocket Pitch 3/8" = 9.5mm 1/2" = 12.7mm 5/8" = 15.87mm Type of Lock If calculator result = ODD Number = Half Lock Even Number = Full Lock If you want to kno ..read more

A customer from Nagpur city, asked us to reduce and ease out laborious work and increase the speed of edge binding. When the edge binding is to be done for a piece of wood, it needs to be done on 4 edges of the wood piece. For small pieces it is easy. But for a piece of door, it needs to be hold by 2 persons and very tedious work. So the customer wanted the piece to return to the operator easily . It was done using a pneumatic cylinder, and transfer mechanism as above. The system receives the piece from the machine, and transfers the same to return path. Orientation is changed during this proc ..read more

Excel Conveyors manufacturer conveyors for small business owners to large corporations. While large corporates have their teams and departments for calculating ROI - return on investments, small business owners are often confused about the term Return on Investment. Why is the word Return on investment so important? When you are running a business, your cash flow is defined. You bring the raw material, you convert them in finished goods, you sell them, you get the money, and you pay back supplier payments and salary. But when you have to purchase an asset or capital equipment, straightway tha ..read more

Load carrying capacity of conveyor rollers is crucial for the conveyor system. Under designing the system may land you in trouble damaging the system. Over designing the conveyor system might go over budgeting. Calculating load on conveyor roller is simple arithmetic and very easy. Assume that you have to design a Gravity Roller Conveyor System for carton box conveying. Weight of the carton box is 50kg Length of the box is 400mm Width of the box is 300mm Lets Calculate width of the rollers = width of the carton box + 50mm So Roller length is 350mm Now we have to decide how many rollers will be ..read more

Mini Belt Conveyors or miniature belt conveyors manufactured by Excel Conveyors have starting widths from 30mm. These are simple belt conveyors only with smaller widths. These are used in various applications for press machine part conveyors, seed counting machine conveyor, electronics parts conveyors, pharma small tablet or bottle conveyors and many more. Belt Tracking has always been a problem for maintainence and end users. But all the belt conveyors manufactured by Excel Conveyors come with centre guided. Due to which minimum belt tracking efforts are requried. A layman can also track the ..read more

A customer based at Chinchwad area, near Pune was looking for easy to convey his warehouse items from ground floor and then receive back from top floor to ground floor. He also wanted conveyor system to receive and dispatch the material on ground floors. The customer was one of the biggest importer of false ceilings and accessories from China. He was in the process to build a 10000 Sqft double storied warehouse. He involved us during architectural phase and we planned the conveyor positions accordingly. We designed the inclined belt conveyor system. The box weight was 20kg. The customer wanted ..read more

Chain driven live roller conveyors are used to move the products such as carton boxes, plastic crates, totes etc at a controlled speeds higher or lower whatever it may be. Chain driven live roller conveyors are beneficial because there is positive engagement between chain and chain teeth and gives excellent power transmission for heavy duty loads also. It is often a complaint that chain driven roller conveyors have more noise. But the noise comes from improper engagement of chain and sprocket. This results because of mis-calculations of roller pitch. So lets understand it. Most of us have do ..read more

Business Owners often hear that there are many advantages and the benefits of using ,conveyor systems. We are going to see what those are. Most of the time the benefits of conveyor automation systems are neglected considering the investment. In this article, we have tried to note down 10 conveyor automation uses and benefits. Conveyors reduce labor costs and increase productivity. Do they? Let's see all the advantages and benefits of using conveyor systems in detail about how the conveyor system will affect your work. What is Conveyor System? Conveyors move the material from place A to place ..read more

Belt Tracking is often an issue faced by conveyor manufacturers and users. Maintenance people are called frequently for belt tracking problems in production areas.  Below are the steps by which should be followed while tracking the belt  With the advancement in technology, there are other ways to avoid and minimize the belt tracking issues. It can be avoided by following ways Coating of the Drive Roller Crowning of the Drive Roller knurling of the Drive Rollers Centre Guide for the belts. Below you shall find the procedure to track the belt. One should understand th ..read more