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Parts Cooling Conveyors
Ambient Air Cooling |
Blowing ambient air over warm parts can be a relatively inexpensive way to help cool warm parts on their way to packing or assembly operations.
Cooling chambers can be placed on flat or incline conveyors. Indexing the conveyor belt can help to maximize time in the cooling chamber. Blowers can
be variable or fixed speed. For greater cooling needs, choose a chilled air or
water cooling system.
Custom cooling enclosures can be added to almost any EMI conveyor or automatic container filling system. Cooling units can also be retro-fitted
in the field on existing EMI conveyors. |
Cooling for thick, closed end parts
When thick walled, closed end parts need to be cooled, getting air to both inside and outside surfaces can often be difficult. This application
solves the problem by having a robot place the product upside down onto an Intralox™, open-grated belt which passes through
an open-ended enclosure. Ambient air blowers under the belt blow air into and around the part. To provide even greater time in the cooling chamber,
the indexing cycle is sequenced with the robotic parts placement, to allow the parts to move as slowly as possible over the blowers. |
Using blown, ambient air to dry parts
Ambient air can also be used to dry parts that have been water cooled. This application uses an air knife to blow most of the water off of the parts.
Several air blowers on top of the enclosure finish the drying job. A grid style belt allows the water to drain into a pan under the conveyor belt. |
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