Mini-Mover Small Conveyor and Accessories Blog http://blog.mini-mover.com Small Conveyor and Accessories Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:36:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mini-Mover Lite as Infeed & Parts-Checking Conveyor http://blog.mini-mover.com/2012/01/13/mini-mover-lite-as-infeed-parts-checking-conveyor/ http://blog.mini-mover.com/2012/01/13/mini-mover-lite-as-infeed-parts-checking-conveyor/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:18:38 +0000 admin http://dev.mini-mover.com/?p=5 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.

Checking and advancing parts via Lite conveyor from courtesy of Jeff Richlin at Omni-Turn on Vimeo.

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Mini-Mover Lite conveyor used at infeed to align parts easily from courtesy of Jeff Richlin at Omni-Turn on Vimeo.

]]> http://blog.mini-mover.com/2012/01/13/mini-mover-lite-as-infeed-parts-checking-conveyor/feed/ 0 “Please Empty Your Pockets” http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/23/please-empty-your-pockets/ http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/23/please-empty-your-pockets/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:27:59 +0000 admin http://dev.mini-mover.com/?p=8 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 Series 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.

Interview with Artist on this Exhibit at UK Guardian

]]> http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/23/please-empty-your-pockets/feed/ 0 Happy Holidays from all of us! http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/20/happy-holidays-from-all-of-us/ http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/20/happy-holidays-from-all-of-us/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:57:10 +0000 admin http://dev.mini-mover.com/?p=12 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.

mini-mover morning A December morning view from our lunchroom.

Sunrise at Whipple Mini-Mover Conveyors

]]> http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/20/happy-holidays-from-all-of-us/feed/ 0 Ink-Jet Coder for Medical Packaging Uses LP Mini-Conveyor http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/13/ink-jet-coder-for-medical-packaging-uses-lp-mini-conveyor/ http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/13/ink-jet-coder-for-medical-packaging-uses-lp-mini-conveyor/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:01:03 +0000 admin http://dev.mini-mover.com/?p=14 Small conveyors from Whipple Mini-Mover provide an ideal component for manufacturers of ink jet 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.

]]> http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/13/ink-jet-coder-for-medical-packaging-uses-lp-mini-conveyor/feed/ 0 Multiple-Lane Mini-Movers are Built to Your Specifications and Application Requirements http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/08/multiple-lane-mini-movers-are-built-to-your-specifications-and-application-requirements/ http://blog.mini-mover.com/2010/12/08/multiple-lane-mini-movers-are-built-to-your-specifications-and-application-requirements/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:16:06 +0000 admin http://dev.mini-mover.com/?p=16 Multiple-lane configuration on your Mini- Mover mini conveyors, available in the Lite Series and LP (Low Profile) Series, 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.

4 Lane Conveyer with Smooth Belt

This customer needed side to side product separation with static discharge protection offered by the belt material selected for this application.

multi-lane conveyor with cleated belt

Another customer needed to ensure product separation from front to back, as well as from side to side

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