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News Release from: Zero-Max | Subject: CD couplings
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 August 2005
Couplings cut giveaways from packaging
machines
Servo-driven systems from Spee Dee Packaging Machinery are equipped with Zero-Max CD couplings and able to fill dry products with repeatable accuracy into one pouch or package.
Auger systems using direct drive servomotors for blending and filling food pouches are an improvement over stepper motor and traditional clutch/brake systems, resulting in increased speed, repeatable filling accuracy and reduced system maintenance Operating at up to 120 fills per minute, these new servo-driven systems from Spee Dee Packaging Machinery when equipped with Zero-Max CD couplings are able to fill dry products with repeatable accuracy into one pouch or package
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Couplings provide high torsional stiffness
Zero-Max' CD couplings are designed with new clamp style hubs for increased torque capacity on shafts without using keyways.
The rapid start/stop augering motion is smoothed out by the coupling so there is no undesirable resonance or vibration during operation.
High speed filling cycles are programmed to fill to specified weights within 1g eliminating expensive product "giveaway".
"We tried other couplings in our augering systems years ago", reports Timm Johnson Spee Dee Vice President.
"None were rigid enough and developed resonance problems".
"So we went to the Zero-Max CD couplings".
"They gave us the torque rigidity we needed".
The systems operate at top speed 24/7 with the systems accelerating from 0 to a maximum 1400rev/min and the coupling handling top torque loads of 428Nm".
"We've had no problems with backlash or vibration using the CD couplings", Johnson reported.
"We've been using them for over 4 years with several hundred in the field". Request a free brochure from Zero-Max ...
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