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Drive assemblies are essential to powering Continental screw conveyors.

For close to 60 years, Continental Conveyor Ltd. has succeeded with high-end industrial material-handling systems and related offerings. The portfolio includes screw conveyors, which rely on accessories such as conveyor drive assemblies to operate properly. The Continental crew offers different combinations and types of drives for screw conveyors, either vertical or inclined. Among the frequently used drives and mechanical arrangements available for these drive assemblies are screw-conveyor drives, shaft-mounted reducers, and gear-motor drives.

For special sealing arrangements

A screw-conveyor drive is a model of drive assembly that includes a modified shaft-mounted reducer, complete with a V-belt drive and motor mount in an integral unit. This drive assembly combines the reducer output shaft, conveyor thrust bearing, end seal, and adapter flange for mounting integrally to the trough end. Users can mount the electric motor in either the vertical or horizontal plane, which boosts the versatility of these conveyor drive assemblies.

Similar to a screw-conveyor drive, a shaft-mounted reducer requires the use of a thrust bearing, a drive shaft, and a seal assembly. As with a screw-conveyor drive, the motor mount can be blended integrally with the reducer unit and transit power through a V-belt drive. Shaft-mounted reducers are typically employed in tasks that require special sealing arrangements on the conveyor shafts, such as packed gland seals, or transmission of very high horsepower that is outside the parameters of the screw-conveyor drive.

Gear-motor drives are another kind of conveyor drive assemblies from the Continental team. This device is used to power a conveyor through either direct, low-speed couplings mounted to the conveyor drive shaft or through the roller-chain drive. The couplings are typically mounted on scoop bases attached to the trough ends, and the roller-chain drive is directly mounted on top of the conveyor, an adapter base, or a base plate beside the conveyor. Gear-motor drives are common when high horsepower is transmitted or when variable-speed gear motors are used to change the feed rates of metering screws.

Variable-speed DC motors with SCR rectifiers, hydraulic drives, and variable pitch sheaves offer other ways of driving screw conveyors.

To learn more, contact Continental.


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Posted by Continental Conveyor Ltd


Continental Conveyor, established in 1963, specializes in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of mechanical bulk... Read more

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