CONVEYORS AND CHIP PROCESSING
Get the chips, swarf, and coolant out of the cell.
Mayfran hinged steel belt conveyors, central chip handling, coolant filtration, briquetting, and magnetic separation. Sized to the machine, the material, and the coolant, not to a standard length.
HINGED STEEL BELT
Chip-Tote conveyors.
A hinged steel belt is the default for machine tool chip handling because it carries hot chips wet or dry without a liner to replace. Belt pitch gets picked from the chip form, and a roller block design keeps the drive load down.
- Range of belt pitches selected by chip form: chips, borings, turnings, scrap
- Roller block design
- Overload protection on the drive and motor
- Hardened component option for abrasive material
- Handles hot chips, wet or dry
- Extends the tank cleanout interval from daily toward weekly or quarterly
CHIP PROCESSING
Central systems for multiple machines.
Once more than a few machines feed the same scrap stream, point solutions stop scaling. A central system moves, dries, sizes, and compacts in one line, and returns coolant to the machines instead of to a drum.
- Chip wringers and centrifuges to dry chips and grinding sludge
- Shredders and crushers for size reduction
- Push-bar, drag, screw, steel belt, and pneumatic conveyors
- Overhead system arrangements where floor space is committed
- Scales to the number of machines, the material, and the coolant type
COOLANT FILTRATION
Closed loop, back to the spindle.
Coolant is a consumable that plants buy twice: once to fill and again to dispose of. A central filtration system recirculates it automatically and combines filtration with chip handling so one line does both jobs.
- Custom engineered central coolant filtration systems
- Viavent overhead pump systems
- Pumpback stations
- Closed-loop automatic recirculation
- Combined filtration and chip handling in a single system
BRIQUETTERS
FastPac, for scrap value and freight.
Loose wet chips are mostly air and coolant, and both get paid for on the outbound freight bill. A continuous-feed dual chamber briquetter compresses them into dry pucks that scrap buyers price higher and that ship at a fraction of the volume.
- Throughput to 1,350 kg/hr on aluminum
- Throughput to 3,200 kg/hr on steel
- Volume reduction up to 95%
- Briquette dryness of 98% or higher
- Continuous feed, dual chamber design
- Handles metal chips, grinding swarf, and organics including paper, sawdust, and plastics
- Recovers coolant and cutting oil at the press
MAGNETIC SEPARATION
MagSep, for fines the belt will not catch.
Fine cast iron and carbon steel chips pass straight through a hinged belt and end up in the tank. A drag conveyor with a charged magnetic bed pulls them out before they get there.
- Removes chips smaller than 50 microns
- 99.9% separation of ferrous particles by weight
- Handles cast iron and carbon steel fines
- Typical on gear cutting, broaching, and hobbing operations
- Extends the tank cleanout interval from weekly toward quarterly
BELTING AND WEAR PARTS
Replacement belting built to the original geometry.
Belting is the part that decides whether a conveyor lasts three years or ten. Interlocking side wings hold spillage on the belt and full-length tube sleeve hinges spread the pin load instead of concentrating it.
- Precision die-formed belt construction
- Interlocking belt side wings for spillage control
- Hardened steel alloy pins
- Full-length tube sleeve hinges
- Flat-faced sintered steel rollers
[NEEDS CLIENT INPUT: conveyor belt widths, lengths, and discharge heights IWI typically stocks or can build to]
[NEEDS CLIENT INPUT: whether Roach conveyor lines are still carried, since they appear on the current vendor list]
Send the machine list and the coolant.
Number of machines, material, chip form, coolant type, and where the scrap has to end up. That sets the conveyor, the filtration, and whether briquetting pays for itself.