Omni-Turn, a manufacturer of CNC lathes and automated feeding and discharge equipment, uses Mini-Mover Conveyors as an economical approach to deliver parts for inspection and insertion into their magazine parts loaders. Small conveyors, such as our Lite Series and LP Series platforms, are easily customized to meet the production flow requirements in the machine shop environment. Our thanks for Omni-Turn for allowing us to share these videos.
Whipple Mini-Mover’s LP Series small conveyor is now part of in an international gallery display at the Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, UK.
In this project, called “Please Empty Your Pockets,” the artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, combined our LP conveyor platform with computer hardware and programming developed by Antimodular Research in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Lozano-Hemmer has over 30 musuem exhibitions currently running throughout the world, including Europe, Canada, South America and the Pacific Rim.
“Please Empty your Pockets” is an installation that consists of an LP Series conveyor with a computerized scanner that records and accumulates everything that passes under it. Museum visitors may place any small item on the conveyor belt, for example keys, ID cards, wallets, worry beads, notepads, phones, coins, dolls, credit cards, etc. Once they pass under the scanner, the objects reappear on the other side of the LP Series conveyor beside projected objects from the memory of the installation.
As a real item is removed from the LP Series conveyor, it leaves behind a projected image of itself, which is then used to accompany future objects. The piece remembers up to 600,000 objects which are displayed beside new ones that visitors progressively add to the installation.
We wish you all a very happy holiday season! Whipple Mini-Mover Conveyors will be closed on Friday, Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 31, 2010.
Because this is still a busy season for us, we will be open as usual, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, Dec. 27 though Dec. 30, 2010.
Our best wishes to all of you who have made this an excellent year. We look forward to serving your mini-conveyor needs throughout 2011.
Small conveyors from Whipple Mini-Mover provide an ideal component for manufacturers of ink just printing and coding machines used for medical, food and many other industrial packaging & labeling applications. Shown in this video is a customer’s lab unit, which shows how easily Whipple’s LP Series mini-conveyor incorporates into an OEM solution, to speed our customer’s completion of the project.
Multiple-lane configuration on your Mini- Mover mini conveyor can be designed to fit the exact separation needs for your products as they are transported from one station to the next. Our application engineers will work with you to ensure your Mini-Mover is built to your specifications and application requirements.
This customer needed side to side product separation with static discharge protection offered by the belt material selected for this application.
Another customer needed to ensure product separation from front to back, as well as from side to side
Conveyors as Art: it’s not our usual application, but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised to find our Mini-Movers on gallery display. Our customers constantly intrigue us with the creative ways they put our mini-conveyors to use. When Los Angeles artist and sculptor Andrew Dominick first contacted us in fall 2009 about his plans for building an avalanche simulator, we knew we were in for a fun project.
“Providence Nature,” Dominick’s spring 2010 exhibition at California State University, Bakersfield’s Todd Madigan Gallery, featured large-scale sculptures depicting nature’s events. Dominick’s sculpture, “Avalanche” is powered by two Lite Series Mini-Mover conveyors, configured to circulate artificial snow up to and around the “mountaintop” at speeds of up to 60 feet per minute.
Considering that Mr. Dominick’s sculpture has included diverse media such as air blowers, aircraft cable and live snakes, we can’t be sure our Mini-Movers will star in another creation. But we’ve had our moment in the sun.
Drew Dominick’s artwork has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles. For the past 10 years, he has taught sculpture and new genre at University of California Los Angeles, CSUB and CSU Long Beach.
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Package labeling, bar-code scanning and underside inspection are just three of many possible uses for Mini-Mover conveyor with our split-belt & bedplate window option. Our basic mini-conveyor design adapts very readily to numerous special options or custom modifications, in speedy production and delivery time. The unit shown shown below was in burn-in yesterday, and ships today to a major manufacturer of industrial filtration systems.
A vocational training center needed a solution for moving tangled heaps of scrap paper into a large shredder several feel above the shop floor. Being a non-profit organization, their budget was limited. So Whipple Mini-Mover gladly developed this custom two-level unit. We added a few touches to make sure that paper moved smoothly to the upper level, while ensuring that both ambulatory and wheelchair students could access the unit to get their work done easily.
How do you move hundreds of pounds of live clams and oysters each week, without hurting your shellfish or your workers? Whipple Mini-Mover Conveyors helped solved the problem for an East Coast aquafarmer with this custom washdown incline conveyor.
Celebrating 60 years of continuous service to the manufacturing industry, the Mini-Mover conveyor division is the industry specialist and value leader in the design and manufacture of portable and low-profile mini conveyors.
