Small Components from Climax Provide Big Impact in Automation Systems
In automation applications, shaft collars and rigid couplings are essential in maintaining alignment, ensuring torque transmission and delivering consistent results.
Automation Systems in Auto Assembly Plants
With today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, factories and machines rely on automated processes to get things done. From initial processing to the final package, these systems are required to be efficient, consistent and reliable. Climax offers rigid couplings and shaft collars in a wide range of sizes and styles, key to keeping automation systems running smoothly and dependably.
Rigid couplings are a mechanical component with a single purpose: to connect two straight shafts together in fixed alignment. As the workhorse of the coupling family, rigid couplings provide high torque transmission, torsional rigidity, and ensure zero backlash. These characteristics are imperative for automation systems where precision and repeatability are vital.
Keyless Rigid Moment Couplings Ensure Connection in Agriculture Conveying Equipment
Climax C600-Series Keyless Rigid Moment Couplings provide a superior solution for hydraulic motors and gearboxes over traditional misalignment couplings in agriculture applications.
Combine Harvesters Incorporate Conveyor Belts
When it’s time to harvest mature crop growth, combine harvesters are the most commonly used harvesting equipment by farmers. With an expected annual growth rate of 8.2% through 2030, combine harvesters are equipped with multiple conveyor belts that facilitate the reaping, threshing, and winnowing required during the harvesting process. Traditional methods for mounting hydraulic motors and gearboxes in conveyor applications often incorporate misalignment couplings that require frequent servicing. This potential failure can lead to downtime, negatively impacting production and profitability.
Reliable Connection for Vibrating Applications in the Recycling Industry
Climax Keyless Locking Devices offer a superior solution to traditional keyed connections in screeners and vibrating conveyor applications commonly found in recycling facilities.
Conveyors Utilized in Recycling Applications
The recycling industry relies on heavy machinery, such as vibrating conveyors and screeners, to transport and sort materials. These machines require a strong shaft/hub connection capable of handling high torque due to constant motion and vibration. Vibratory machines often use keyed connections, which can reduce shaft strength by up to 30%, making the shaft more vulnerable to torsional and bending stresses. Additionally, when set screws are used to secure components on a shaft, marring can occur. The small oscillatory movements and vibrations make these machines susceptible to keyway fretting, causing gradual erosion over time.
Car Wash Tunnel Conveyor Systems Benefit from the use of a Keyless Locking Device
A Keyless Locking Device from Climax provides an alternative to traditional keyed connections in car wash tunnel conveyor applications proving to be cost-effective and maintenance-friendly.
Tunnel Conveyor System in Car Wash
Providing customers a seamless car wash ensures that they leave the facility happy and with a clean car. Although the requirement for equipment maintenance may seem daunting and costly, proper maintenance of a car wash is extremely important in providing a positive experience. Many car wash facilities incorporate the use of an underground tunnel conveying system that moves the vehicle through the washing process. Typically this type of car wash system can reach upwards of a half-million dollars in equipment.
Traditionally, manufacturers use a keyed connection to mount the chain sprocket to shafting. Shaft/hub connections in the car wash conveying systems are subjected to harsh and strenuous loads which can lead to shaft fatigue (more…)
Hydraulic Motor & Conveyor Systems Benefit With the Use of Keyless Rigid Couplings
Climax Keyless Rigid Couplings provide a superior solution for shaft mounted hydraulic motors and gearboxes over traditional approaches in timber conveying applications.
Traditional methods used to shaft mount hydraulic motors and/or gearboxes in conveyor application such as wood chippers; include the need for brackets and expensive structures to support the motor. Failure to properly align shafts in these applications can lead to premature coupling failure. Additionally, misalignment can lead to hydraulic motor leaks and total bearing failures due to inordinate facial loads on the motor bearings, resulting in maintenance issues and downtime consequently affecting production and profitability. Even when these components are properly aligned these connections are subjected to outside elements that can affect alignment.
Climax Series C600 Keyless Rigid Couplings provide the desired high torque and bending capacity required for conveyor applications thus eliminating bearing and motor failure. Shaft mounting the drive ensures that shafts are in perfect alignment, removing the chance of hydraulic motor leaks (more…)
KLDs Provide Productivity Solutions for High Speed Index Packaging Machinery
Keyless Locking Devices (KLDs) ensure required positional accuracy and repeatability is achieved from drive line components, and eliminate keyed connection failure.
When high volumes are desired the most common approach is through the use of high speed index packaging machinery. These machines are capable of performing simultaneous actions at multiple stages of the production process, consequently reducing cycle times. The strenuous demands on the machines, especially the requirement of positional accuracy and repeatability from its drive line components, can cause keyed connections to wear out, become out of sync, and break down over time.
Climax Keyless Locking Devices are designed to use in place of keyed (more…)
Optimal Solution for Mining Belt Conveyor Systems
Climax Keyless Locking Devices provide advantages over keyed connections. Mining OEMs incorporate keyless connections in equipment design.
Drum pulleys, especially head or tail pulleys, using traditional keyed connections introduce several compromises. Whenever a shaft is keyed, it must be oversized to account for the loss of effective cross section. This adds weight and cost not only to the shaft, but to every component on the shaft. Once assembled, keyways are susceptible to fretting, corrosion, and allow backlash. QD, XT, or taper-lock bushings do not transmit reversing bending moments and are susceptible to shaft fatigue failure originating at the keyways. Climax KLDs eliminate the need for keyways reducing downtime and loss of profit while allowing the use of smaller shafting and components. KLDs provide a longer life for both mine duty and engineered class conveyor pulleys.
Mining machinery is constantly subjected (more…)
