Multi-Conveyor has recently designed a 9ft x 42in stainless steel sanitary food grade conveyor belt with a rotating discharge end. The vault is used to dump a batch of rejected baked goods so they don’t end up on the production line.
       This section replaces the existing conveyor and has been designed to be easily upgraded to suit the customer’s current production scheme.
        In the video, Tom Wright, Account Manager for Multi-Conveyor Sales, explains: “The client had an existing conveyor and they asked us to take it apart to install an intermittent conveyor to provide a reject mold on one of their bread lines. When they receive a batch or group of poor quality products, they drop them into a container or basket. The reference end is lowered so that they can be delivered to the container or basket. When the group is rejected, the discharge end turns again and is transferred to an intermittent transmission (customer provided) for transition to the next section of the existing conveyor line.
        The AOB (Air Chamber) pneumatic housing contains controls for swiveling the pneumatic reject assembly to the up or down position. A manual override selector switch is also built in so the operator can rotate the exhaust port as desired. This electrical cabinet will be installed remotely so that the operator can easily select automatic or manual control as required.
        The flush system has ground and polished welds, welded internal frame braces and special sanitary floor supports. In the video, Multi-Conveyor Assessor Dennis Orseske further explains, “This is one of the Multi-Conveyor Level 5 sanitation jobs. If you look closely, you will see that each boss is welded on and self-polished to a certain radius. No lock washers. in place, with a gap between each part (docking plate) so that nothing builds up inside We have bearing caps that prevent grease from building up inside, we have so-called cleaning holes, so when you go to clean the conveyor belt, you can spray (water) on it. It’s an open mesh upper so you can spray it all over.”
        The system also takes security into account. Orseske continued: “We have clean holes so you can’t put your hands or fingers in there for security reasons. We have a return boot plus chain support. When that part (which he points to in the video) fails When the conveyor belt is cleared (the product). As you can see here, our shaft passes. The shaft has a hygienic, removable finger guard to keep your hands from getting stuck in it.”
        To minimize particle buildup and simplify cleaning, unique stainless steel hygienic articulated adjustable feet complete the hygienic design. Orseske concludes: “We have a unique hygienic adjustable foot. Boss, the threads do not stick out.
       Multi-conveyors usually have an end drive profile at the discharge end, but since turning conveyors have to go up and down, we needed to keep the mechanism away from the axle, so we used a center drive.
       Due to the steep slope at the foot, Multi-Conveyor built a special, upwardly extended serrated frame to support the conveyance of customer-supplied smaller wire mesh products, allowing for a smooth transition from the new rotary discharge line to the existing line.