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General
Chain Conveyors are an essential part of many conveying and storage systems, they are used for general movement and distribution of bulk materials as well as in hopper discharge applications. Guttridge chain conveyors have been continuously developed over many years and are available in four popular configurations - Single Strand, Twin Trace Shrouded, Soft Flight and Superflow. The modular design ensures easy assembly, installation and maintenance, allowing any configuration to be easily and quickly built up to suit a customer's exact requirements.
Specification
In general most free flowing powders, grains, flakes and pellets can be successfully handled with a chain conveyor. Selection of the conveyor and chain type depends on the material characteristics, throughput and application, although degradation and abrasiveness may also be important. Upwards and downwards bend sections are available for some configurations and the machines are available in stainless steel, galvanised or painted mild steel construction to suit customer requirements.
Standard Features and Options
Each machine is carefully tailored to suit the client's precise needs and special purpose machines are available to suit unusual requirements. Please click on a heading to display a photo and description.
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ATEX*
Features:
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ATEX Certified machinery is available for applications which handle potentially explosive products
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Fully certified ATEX Zones 20 internally, and Zones 21 and 22 both external and internal
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Chain Options*
Features:
- Steel chain with integral pressed flights
- Plastic cleaning flights at 6m intervals clean the casing and centre the chain
Options:
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Hollow pin steel roller with bolted flight bars
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Malleable cast iron and round pin chain
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Drop forged chain with welded flight bars or plastic sleeved flights
- Drop forged chain with bolted joints and flights
- Stainless Steel Chain
- Special chain configurations, e.g. Twin Strand Chain
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Construction
Features:
- Painted finish, as standard cream RAL1015
- UHMW Polyethylene chain support wear strips (top and bottom)
Options:
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Stainless steel construction
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Internal wear resistant liners
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Automatic spring loaded tensioning facility
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Special high or low temperature environments
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Galvanised or alternative paint colours and systems available
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Drive Options
Features:
- IP55 electric motor with a Vee-belt drive to a shaft mounted speed reducer
Options:
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Geared motor and chain drive
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Direct drive with coupling
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Shaft mounted right-angle geared motor
- Variable speed drive
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Intake Options
Options:
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Mechanical intake (pictured above)
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Trench intake (pictured below)
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Both mechanical and trench intakes provide variable intake capacity by either speed adjustment or a mechanical regulator
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The trench intake is usually mounted flush with the floor
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Outlet Slide Valves
Features:
Options:
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Electro-pneumatic
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Rack and pinion
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Motorised
- Troughform (Superflow only)
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Overflow Protection
Features:
- Overflow protection is usually by means of a pressure pad located over the outlet to detect material buildup
Options:
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Recycle Cups*
Options:
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Rotation Sensor*
Options:
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Self Cleaning Drive End and Tail End
Options:
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A self clean drive end can be used as an alternative to Recycle Cups and is often specified for use with Shrouded Chain Conveyors
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A Self Cleaning Drive End will recycle product carry-over at the drive end of the machine
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The Self Cleaning Tail End uses a radius plate to minimise residue at the tail end
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Shrouded Chain Conveyor*
Features:
- Twin strand chain with interconnecting flight bars
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Soft Flight Conveyor/Angleveyor*
Features:
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Spring Tensioning*
Options:
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Standard Chain Conveyor
Features:
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Solid Pin Steel chain with flushed roller and integral pressed flight bars
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Plastic cleaning flights at 6m intervals ensure chain alignment
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Breaking strength specified according to machine length and capacity
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Superflow Chain Conveyor*
Features:
Options:
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* - Optional Equipment
Product Suitability
Guttridge Chain Conveyors are in operation in many different industry sectors and countries in a huge variety of bulk material handling applications.
- Chocolate Flakes
- Coal
- Corn
- Fertilisers
- Flour
- Fly Ash
- Glass
- Granules
- Limestone
- Meals
- Miscellaneous Feed Ingredients & Products
- Ores
- Plastic Pellets
- Rice
- Sand
- Sunflower Seeds
- Tea
- Wheat
Additional Notes
Chain conveyors are available in heavy duty construction for arduous applications - chain types and speed will be varied to suit. Please contact us for details of the many options available and for special purpose requirements.
Please contact us for details of the many options available and for special purpose requirements.
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