Please find below a small array of bespoke elevators.
Date Elevator
The above elevator were built in 2012 for processing Dates in a busy pack house based in London. The produce is emptied out of boxes onto a table, this is then feed into an x-ray machine then into a macerator upon exiting the macerator the Dates are then flour dusted via a small dispensing unit located on one of the elevators, the produce then reaches the final part of the process, the sieve this unit size grades the Dates ready to go onto the packaging machinery.
This machinery was fabricated from stainless steel.
The white PVC belting used on the elevators had a 12mm high cleat in a ladder formation, this pattern was used to keep the dates secure in/on the belt whilst being elevated.
All these machines have belt widths of 500mm and a belt speed of 15 metres per minute.
Carrot Elevator
This carrot elevator was used to transport carrots to an even flow machine, which then went onto a weighing machine – a roller inspection table fed this elevator.
The above machine was built in 2011 to delivery small carrot batons into a Newtec weighing machine, with the floor space in the high-care process room being extremely tight! we had to design an elevator which could fit into the space provided. This elevator stands at 10 degrees off vertical, which then leads us onto the special flighted cleats used, these are 60mm tall and have a kink/bend half way up.
This machine was fabricated from stainless steel, has a belt width of 800mm and a discharge height of 3.3metres, the belt speed is 15 metres per minute.
This is another Elevator used to transport carrots in 2011, it was integrated into an existing production line. This machine elevates carrots fed from a diameter grader onto the elevator then up towards a pair of length graders. This elevator has a belt width of 2 metres and a discharge height of 4 metres the overall foot print length is 7 metres, it has a belt speed of 20 metres per minute.
This elevator is fabricated from mild steel and uses food grade plastics for produce contact points.
This type of elevator is commonly fabricated using a modular conveyor belting, but for this dusty onion pack-house a PVC flighted grip top belt was more applicable. The abrasive dust tends to wear plastic modular belting and their drive sprockets.
Onion Elevator
This compact angled elevator transfers the netted onions from the netting machine to the check weighing machine.
This machine was fabricated from stainless steel, it has a belt width of 300mm C/W 20mm high flights the foot print length of the machine is 2.8 metres
The elevator above was built in 2007 and is used to transport loose onions. The produce which doesn’t get packaged correctly (under or over weights) can easily be elevated back up to the process line to be reused. This operation use to be done by operators carrying trays of produce up and down steps.
This elevator is fabricated from mild steel and has stainless steel product contact points, it has a 500mm belt width C/W 50mm high flights, this unit has a discharge height of 4.5 metres and a foot print length of 6 metres.
Potato Elevator
This is a very bespoke machine, this was built in 2011 it’s used to transfer baking potatoes into a plastic dolav bin. The potatoes are feed from a processing line, this machine lowers its head into the bin automatically to find the base then the product is allowed to flow, as the produce fills the bin the head of the elevator raises, the flow and head raising continues until the head reaches its upper limit switch, the bin is then exchanged and the process starts again, this operation prevents any damage to the produce.
This de-elevator is fabricated from stainless steel, it has a 400mm belt width with a speed of 20 metres per minute, this unit is 1.8 metres long and has a variable discharge height.
Swan Neck Elevator
This swan neck conveyor/elevator was built to transfer leeks to a weighing machine.
This elevator was 6m long by 100mm wide, complete with white Intralox modular belting.
This elevator was built in 2013
These conveyor belts can be supplied in many different colours and options for example
