Alpha's Economic Precision Provides Options

Alpha's Economic Precision Provides Options

Always striving to offer the ideal gear reducer solution for customer application requirements, alpha is proud of its LP+/LPB+ Value Line series of gearheads. Its economic precision products are reliable and - thanks to a unique lubrication concept - maintenance-free for their entire service life. Focused on less demanding applications, these gear reducers offer outstanding efficiency with low...

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Variable Speed Direct-Drive Motors Slash Air Knife and Blower Maintenance; Optional Sensor Detects Motor Problems Early

Smart direct-drive motors reduce operational costs and extend the life cycles of blowers and air knives. An optional vibration sensor provides early detection of motor failure. March 29, 2006 -- With approximately 40 fewer parts, no belts, pulleys, tensioners or bulky housings, direct-drive motor technology offers vast improvements in wear life over belt drive systems. While known primarily for...

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Goodrich Ships First Electric Aircraft Brake

- Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk receives an industry first CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 30 / / -- Goodrich Corporation (NYSE:GR) has shipped the aerospace industry's first, electrically-actuated, production brakes for installation on Northrop Grumman's new RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. The brakes were shipped from Goodrich's Troy, Ohio, Wheels and Brakes site to Northrop Grumman in San Diego,...

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ATK Rocket Motors Power Successful Launch of Pegasus-® XL

Microsatellites to Explore Earth's Magnetic Field MINNEAPOLIS, March 22 -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE:ATK) solid propulsion and composite technologies supported the successful launch today of an air-launched PegasusÂ-® XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The rocket carried three microsatellites comprising NASA's Space Technology No. 5 (ST-5) mission into orbit. The ST-5 Project is...

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Gear Units for Shredders

Gear Units for Shredders

Today truck and car tires are shredded for use by electric power and fuel companies. Typical shredder systems require planetary gear units in different configurations. For this type of application, Brevini Riduttori has developed one, two, and three-stage high torque in-line gear units. The shredder has two main counter-rotating shafts on which the shredding elements called knives are attached....

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PIV Drives: Single Screw Extruder Drives for Biggest Film Production Line Made by Reifenhäuser

PIV Drives: Single Screw Extruder Drives for Biggest Film Production Line Made by Reifenhäuser

PIV Drives supplied single screw extruder drives for a 35 m high blown film line, that was installed in Spain One of the many applications for blow film lines are agricultural films, that are used in modern cultivation systems to increase yields by covering vast areas of agricultural regions. For this purpose single- and multi-layer wide films are produced on blow film lines. ReifenhÃ-¤user,...

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PIV Drives: Twin Screw Extruder Drives for High Performance Compounder Made by Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer

PIV Drives: Twin Screw Extruder Drives for High Performance Compounder Made by Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer

PIV Drives Provides Double Toothed Rack And Pinion Drives for All-Electric Injection Moulding Machines The POSIRACK rack and pinion drives of PIV Drives (Bad Homburg, Germany), a Brevini Power Transmission company, are used for mould locking in all-electric injection moulding machines. These drives reduce energy consumption drastically while considerably increasing productivity. Milacron - one of...

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6mm DC Motor with Planetary Gearhead

6mm DC Motor with Planetary Gearhead

The Faulhaber 0615 motor is presently the only production 6mm diameter coreless DC motor available with a matching diameter planetary gearhead. Designed with a high energy rare earth magnet and the patented Faulhaber skew-winding, it is available in 1.5, 3, and 4 Volt versions. The motor has a no-load speed of 19000 rpm and is capable of .11 mNm continuous and peak torque at stall of .24 mNm. The...

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Digital Brushless DC Drive displays speed and load factors.

Digital Brushless DC Drive displays speed and load factors.

Direct drive incorporates Oriental Motor's BLF series into one platform that allows operators to digitally set their operating speeds. Programmable for up to 8 pre-set speeds that can be set by external controls and operate standard conveyors from 2.5-125 fpm. PLC can be connected to provide starting, stopping, speed, acceleration, and deceleration controls. Mounted on either side of conveyor,...

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