Clutch-Brake promotes high heat dissipation.
Press Release Summary:
Through-shaft, air-to-spring Air Champ® Model LSCB-44HT has multiple interfaces that engage under air pressure to drive sprockets attached to clutch pilot. When air exhausts from clutch, series of springs separate clutch interfaces and simultaneously engage brake. Internal splined hub design assures full brake torque to system. Open designed clutch-brake requires no rotary air union and has zero drag torque. It is suitable for chain-driven, accumulating conveyors
Original Press Release:
Nexen Provides Customers with a Superior Clutch-Brake
(Vadnais Heights, Minn. - October 23, 2002) Nexen Group, Inc., today announced the expansion of their Air Champ® shaft-mounted clutch-brake family. The new LSCB-44HT provides customers with a through shaft, air-to-spring, clutch-brake that is ideal for starting and stopping the roller shaft on chain driven, accumulating conveyors.
This high torque clutch-brake has multiple interfaces that engage under air pressure to drive the sprockets that are attached to the clutch pilot. When air exhausts from the clutch, a series of springs separate the clutch interfaces and simultaneously engage the brake.
Nexen's low cost, open designed LSCB-44HT clutch-brake improves airflow and promotes high heat dissipation. It's internal splined hub design assures full brake torque to the system resulting in trouble-free disengagement. This product requires no rotary air union, has zero drag torque, and can be integrated into any system. The LSCB-44HT provides customers with innovative stopping and holding for material handling conveyor systems.
Nexen is a leading manufacturer of brakes, clutches, servo motor and linear motion brakes, torque limiters, overload protection devices, and web tension control systems for a variety of industrial applications ranging from motion control and robotics to packaging and material handling. With headquarters in Vadnais Heights, Minn., Nexen has more than 40 worldwide sales offices and more than 1,500 worldwide distributor sales outlets. For more information on Nexen's line of motion control products, contact:
Bobbi J. Jensen
Marketing Communications
560 Oak Grove Parkway
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127
651/286-1054
COMPANY BACKGROUNDER
Description
Nexen Group, Inc. is a leader in pneumatic power transmission components worldwide. Nexen has been producing industrial clutches, brakes, and web tension control products for nearly 50 years. Their customers span every industry - from multi-national corporations to small businesses - and range from design engineers to plant maintenance.
History
A privately held company, Nexen traces its origins to 1902 when a firm called Horton was founded. In 1951, Hugh Schilling, Sr. and three investors purchased the company and named it Horton Inc. Over the years, the company evolved into two distinct product lines - industrial products (including motion control and web control systems) and diesel vehicle components. In January 1999, Horton split into two separate companies. Hugh (Hutch) K. Schilling, Jr., who was president of Horton Inc., acquired the industrial products business. The headquarters for this business moved from Minneapolis to Vadnais Heights and was renamed Nexen Group in June 1999.
Products/Services
Nexen Group is a leading manufacturer of brakes, clutches, torque limiters, overload protection devices and control systems for a variety of industrial applications ranging from packing equipment to sawmills and automobile conveyor systems. The Air Champ® line of clutches and brakes is the industry standard for rotary motion control and power transmission. The company's extensive distribution network serves markets throughout the world with a product line of more than 2,500 components and systems for stop-start, disconnect and overload protection.
The Eclipse(TM) line of spring-applied brakes set new standards for strength and product design. Its servo motor brakes deliver so much torque they exceed the continuous stall torque of a servo motor. They confidently hold loads in all axes and during emergency-stop situations. These products offer safety and performance for virtually any AC, servo or linear motor.
Nexen also offers systems for guiding and tension control of roll material moving through a web production machine. Nexen web control systems ensure even flow of material and close-tolerance registration with maximum throughput. Applications range from printing of paper and cardboard for food and other packaging to the production of flexible circuit assemblies applied to polymer films.
Employees/Sales/Distribution
Nexen Group has 150 employees at its headquarters location in Vadnais Heights, Minn., and at its manufacturing facility in Webster, Wis. The company also has more 40 worldwide sales offices and more than 1,500 worldwide distributor sales outlets. The company has 120 U.S. and international patents.
For more information on Nexen and its products, visit us at www.nexengroup.com, or contact:
Bobbi J. Jensen
Marketing Communications
560 Oak Grove Parkway
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127
651/286-1054
bjensen@nexengroup.com
