Multi-Conveyor releases belts for bakery products

The equipment can assist in glazing and hardening.

Multi-Conveyor recently built a series of powered plastic belt conveyors to assist in the glazing application and hardening stages of a bakery product. Initial conveyors accept randomly placed unpackaged baked product from the customer’s existing wire belt conveyor, through nearly 73’ of a liquid glazing stage.

The glazed product then end-transfers onto a sanitary 16’ high stainless steel spiral conveyor that runs at a predetermined pace needed to complete the glaze hardening process, the company says.

Friction-reducing, 20”W x 350’L of Intralox S2700 Side Drive V2 Acetal Blue belting, with reinforcement rounds and drive teeth on outside edge, was key for consistent 180-degree curve throughout, it notes. This belt choice is designed for side-driven applications with a minimum turn radius of 2.0 times the belt width. Teeth along the belt edge drive the belt and are suitable for longer conveyor belting without transfer points.

Multi-Conveyor builds job specific, designed-to-order, belt-driven, or drum spiral continuous belt accumulation spirals, by request. It constructs or spec cost-conscious spirals based on optimal footprint, precise timing needed for product cooling, or extra accumulation required for upstream equipment processes without losing critical production time, it adds.

The independently placed product reportedly exits the spiral by end transferring to an existing customer overhead conveyor. Transfer of product to existing conveyor will be done using a pivoting decline to raise product to the next phase of the line.

At the time of this video, Multi-Conveyor was still in the process of completing the special side guarding along the outer parameter of the entire spiral system to avoid belting pinch-points, enhancing operator safety, it says.

This entire hygienic food transport conveyor system was made of stainless steel, wash down construction including motors and wash down gear reducers. Sanitary slotted clean-out holes are staggered inside frames. The equipment reportedly has continuous welds, bolted stand-offs for flange bearings and floor supports, bolted frame spacers, and bolted wear strips.