Controls & Machine Components

Air cylinder

Firestone Industrial Products' (Carmel, IN) 2M2A "Microactuator" is a pneumatic bellows-type air cylinder designed to provide smooth actuation in place of an air or hydraulic cylinder.

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Controls & Machine Components

Machine guarding system

Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) has developed a new electronic machine guarding system with a compact, low-cost, DIN-rail mountable control box. It uses an optoelectronic emitter, receiver and a 24v DC control box to generate a "screen" of infrared light beams between a hazardous machine and personnel.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Cable carriers

E-Z Chain cable carriers from igus (E. Providence, RI) are designed with a split crossbar along the inner or outer radius for quick installation or removal of cables and hoses, without any tools.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pinch valve

Flow Control pinch valves from Flow-Rite Controls (Grand Rapids, MI) combine precise flow control characteristics of needle valves with low-cost, easy-to-use features of pinch valves.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Fast tooling changeover

A new brochure from Jergens (Cleveland, OH) features products to speed tooling changeovers and to maximize the number of parts held on a fixture. It includes the Ball Lock(TM) Mounting System, which permits accurate locating and locking of fixture plates to subplates in less than a minute.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Drive motors with tachometer

For use in applications where precise speed regulation is required, Baldor Electric (Ft. Smith, AR) offers SCR-rated Permanent Magnet DC Motors with precision integral DC tachometers.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Pallet products video

Laminations (Neenah, WI) has updated its corporate video, "Your Competitive Edge," to demonstrate some of its newer products, PF PalletTop(TM) and FlexBoard(TM).

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Controls & Machine Components

Fieldbus interface

The Profibus process fieldbus interface card from Hardy Instruments (San Diego, CA) is designed for the company's HI 2160RC loss-in-weight rate controller.

January 31, 1997

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

PP/polyester film

Q-PET(TM) is a patent-pending coextruded multilayer film with a core layer of PP and surface layers of polyester. This offers users a significant cost reduction over traditional PP, says the company.

January 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printer/applicator

The Bakery Printer & Applicator from EPI Labelers (New Freedom, PA) was specifically designed to place labels and date codes on packaged bread, rolls, candy and other bakery items.

January 31, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

In-line capper

New Resina's (Brooklyn, NY) new in-line capper uses a patent-pending design to improve torque range and enable users to reach speeds of 600 caps/min, depending on bottle size.

January 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Proximity sensor

The WTR photoelectric proximity sensor from SICK Optic-Electronic (Eden Prairie, MN) is specifically designed for accumulation, loading and unloading applications on roller conveyors.

January 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Pallet load labeling

Kolinahr Systems' (Louisville, KY) SA-2000 is an automatic print/apply pallet load labeling system. When integrated with a product load accumulation conveyor, it can apply labels to one or two sides of individual finished product loads.

January 31, 1997