Showing posts with label 01_Endless/ Open Bel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 01_Endless/ Open Bel. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Easy-to-Clean Metal Belt Food Conveyor

Easy-to-Clean Meta Belt Food Conveyor

Emergency declaration was lifted here in Japan yesterday.

Still COVID-19 threat exists. 
In DYMCO we continue to work from home and make use of web conferences.
Social distance, masks, ventilation, and washing hands have become are our new behaviors.

In such a situation, we feel motivation is growing to keep clean transport equipment especially in the food and medical industries.

Easy to clean is our  “Food Steel Belt Conveyor
The belt, frames and all parts are made of stainless steel.
Disassembly, cleaning and washing are very easy.
 
DYMCO Steel Belt Conveyor for Food Hygiene Management
 
There is little 凹凸 on the stainless steel belt surface.
Please wipe with alcohol or wash with water at the end of work.
The belt is soon dry and kept clean.

Also, by additional surface treatments other functions may be acquired on the belt.
This is an issue to be discussed.
Please contact us or email to overseas@dymco.co.jp

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Hygienic Stainless Steel Belt

                                                  Hygienic Stainless Steel Belt

We are facing COVID-19 now.  This is fight against virus.

In the food industry have been repeated food poisoning and food product contamination due to bacteria growth.

One reason is hygiene management on food process machines and food transport systems.

Generally, we can clean metal much more easily than organic materials like resin and rubber.
Especially stainless steel demonstrated little possibility of rusts.
So this metal has been used in the food processing industry and water related parts like sinks and faucets.
 
DYMCO is an expert of stainless steel belts.
Our belts are hygiene and emit little dusts, serving as a good transport tool in the food industry and clean-room operations.

Reference in our site: * Problems with Contamination / Cleaning / Residual odors ?
http://www.steelbelt.jp/solution/contamination_uncleanability_residual_odor.php

* Problems with Dust Generation / Particle Contamination ?
http://www.steelbelt.jp/solution/particle_generation_contamination.php

We wish everyone stays healthy.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Low cost standard steel belt conveyor for your first trial

Low cost standard steel belt conveyor for your first trial


We have standard steel belt conveyors.
Especially the small one is the best for users, who use steel belts for the first time.

Steel belts are employed for particular reasons like clean room, hygiene food transport, heating and drying, and vacuum environment.

If you need to tackle contamination, particles, static electricity, vibration, very flat transport surface, we recommend to try this conveyor first for evaluation of effects with metal belts.
For the small size conveyor we offer the special price.
 

 

Friday, February 14, 2020

Metal Belt Quality Control - Hole Pitch Measurement


 Metal Belt Quality Control - Hole Pitch Measurement
 

We do measurements using micrometer, calipers, pi tapes and such.
These acts sustain quality of our steel belts.

On some belts of
perforated ones we perform hole pitch measurements on micron order by 2D image measuring machine of the picture below.

 Metal Belt Hole-Pitch Mearuement Device
 

 Hole-Pitch Measurement Display
 
We keep the required quality by these measurement and inspection in each process.

Thursday, February 13, 2020

When you replace plastic and rubber belts with metal belt

When you replace plastic and rubber belts with metal belt


We hav been appealing metal belts for more than 30 years.
But we still find many people who are not familiar with metal belts.
This cannot be helped in a way.
 
However, those people suddenly face problems like trasport under heat, belt elongation, or viblatin of the transport surface.
Then metal belts emerge in ther mind.
We have many phone calls of those people in Japan and email questions from all over the world.
 
These calls and  emails are very important to us.
Becuase there are key engineering points when metal belts are introduced for the first time.
 
Here in Japan we lend conveyors like the picture below.
 
Steel Belt Conveyor: CC 500mm, Metal Belt covered with Green Fluorescent Coating,
Belt Thickness 0.15mm, Belt Width 50mm
 
With overseas users we listen to their situations and lend the conveyor when conditions are agreed.
 

Friday, January 17, 2020

Great Potential in Metal Belts

Great Potential in Metal Belts

Our management and accountants often talk with people working banks and finacial industries. 
They pay attention to our metal belts, too,
for our belts are unique and great potential to creat new markets.
Those belts are like the ones in the pictures below.


Suction / Vacuum Conveyor for web handling 
Metal Sleeves for Film Forming
Our belts are expected to creat and handle new functional matrials.

Thursday, December 26, 2019

From Sheet-to-Sheet Press to R2R Double Belt Heat Press

From Sheet-to-Sheet Press to R2R Double Belt Heat Press

 
The year of 2019 is going to be closed.
We had many guests here this year. 
Many of them brought their special material and we did experiments and evaluation together here.
 
Some of them found DYMCO web site in their Internet search or got info from our blog and were motivated try tests at DYMCO lab.
 
One of issues of our clients is how to shift to the volume production that includes heating, pressing and cooling.  Ordinary machines cannot produce a lot, covering these process.
Here we suggest you to examine our Double Belt Heat and Press Unit.
 
Like an illustration below, the post guide press machine on your left presses the work one by one.
Volume production cannot be expected.
The unit on your right, however, 2 belts continuously heat, press, and cool the work n R2R basis.
Volume production and production cost decrease are gained. 
 
 



Cross Section of Post Guide Press (left) and Double Belt Heat Press (Right)
In Double Belt Unit there are 3 process, Orange Area 1 preheating, Orange Area 2 Heating, and Blue Area of Cooling.
 

This heat and press test involves 3 elements of temperature, pressure and time.  We cannot easily guess the results.  So why not come hear and see what happens?
 

Friday, December 20, 2019

Did You Touch a Welded Area of Metal Belt?

Did You Touch a Welded Area of Metal Belt?

 We make metal endless belts by butt welding.
You may wonder 'Is the welding line really beautiful?'
 
We prepare for wedling samples so that you can see and touch its flatness.
They are right in the picture below.

 
 
 
From the front, thickness is 0.05mm, 0.08mm, 0.1mm, 0.15mm, 0.2mm, and 0.3mm.
 
If you need flatter state, we can offer polishing on the welding line.

 
 


Monday, December 2, 2019

Features of Metal Belts


Features of Metal Belts

Today we review basic features of steel belts.
The chart below is  comparison with elastic plastic and rubber belts.

Here we find clearly standing features of metal belts.
These good things may help issues or problems when using plastic or rubber belts.

Of course we know that metal belts have also weak points like belt life and wear powders.


Steel Belt Features with Comparison with plastic and rubber belts
Items
Comparison
Steel Belt Features
 Steel 
Belt
Plastic and Rubber belt
Uniform thickness
Exellent
Slightly inferior
Stabel Power Transmission
Elasticity
Low
High
Stabel Power Transmission
Rigidity
High
Low
Linear drive transmission, Improved positioning
Conductivity
Good
Slightly bad
Reduction of workpiece charging
Heat Resistant
Exellent
Slightly bad
Relatively small effect from heat
Antibacterial
Exellent
Slightly inferior
Cleanliness


With thes advantages we'd like to challenge issues of our clients and users.
Please be free to send us your problems and questions
 

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

DYMCO Serves Stainless Steel Belt Food Conveyor

DYMCO Serves Stainless Steel Belt Food Conveyor

Many conveyors are working in Food production, plastic belt conveyors in most cases.
But DYMCO make food conveyors using stainless steel belts.

Metal belts are superior in life and shows resistance against corrosion and chemicals in cleaning materials.
Stainless steel belts best fit heating, drying, and cooling.

Stainless steel itself does not kill bacteria,
but it rejects incoming of viable bacteria on to belt surface.
Bacterial does not grow in the belts. 
Food items are also directly placed on the a clean metal belt surface.
These good things are only found in metal belts.

No atrophy or deterioration take place either when washing with very hot water or Alkaline chemicals.

The tail of our conveyor is easily lifted up so that washing and belt exchanges are done smoothly.


DYMCO's Stainless Steel Belt Food Conveyor

Food conveyance tests in our lab are also welcome.



Friday, October 18, 2019

Heating and Transport of Heated Parts and Material by Metal Belt Conveyor


Today's topic is heating metal belt conveyor.
We have provided metal belt conveyors for different purposes:

- Keep heated atmosphere
- Baking
- Dry powder
- Heating, heat treatment and softening of metal parts

Now DYMCO has one heating metal belt conveyor in the picture below.

We use this in our lab for tests with our customers.

The heating furnace is set over the transport surface, above the metal belt.
We set up heating temperature, transport speed and heating time.
This way we get results from different conditions.

Drying and Heating Metal Belt Conveyor / Belt Width 500mm  C-C 3000


In addition in our lab we have suction conveyor and transport under vacuum is tested.
If you are interested in these tests, try contact to us. 


Thursday, October 10, 2019

Folding and Perforation: Metal Open Band End Processing


Today we show examples of end processing on metal open band.
In the picture below, end folding on your left and perforation on your right. 


Folding and Perforation at Metal Open Band End
These belts are thickness 0.2mm.  Steel grade is SUS 304H.
This is spring type of stainless steel.
It endures repeated bendings around rollers and pulleys.
So these metal belts are used for power transmission and covers for actuators and protection of certain parts in machines.

4 holes are for fixing this end.
Normally we sandwich this end by unit (Assy) plate block and fix ends.

Ends in the picture are folded.  This is quite rare.  Usually they are straight and not folded.
But we do lots of process and live up to customers' request.
Our minimum lot of open band is one belt.