Take Up Winches

• The combination of gears provides for greater mechanical protection due to the use of high ratio worm gears which will help to resist runaways in the event of a brake failure.
• The use of a seperate motor and brake allows the winch to remain locked in position while a failed motor is repaired.
• The epicyclic final gear presents a massive face width of gear tooth to withstand the shock loads which can be encountered during belt start-up.
• The design and style of these winches are very compact, thus allowing easy positioning of the winch in the conveyor structure.
• The take-up winch speeds can be varied to suit customer’s requirements by simply changing the worm gear ratios.
• Controlled mechanical overload payout during starting and stopping of automatically controlled conveyors.
• It offers instantaneous reactions to tension spikes thus protecting and extending the life of the belt, belt pulleys, tensioning rope and the winch.
• Disapation of tension spike energy by allowing the winch to payout, at a present tension level, even when the brakes are locked. This enables us to simulate one of the big advantages of a gravity take-up system within an automatic tension controlling system.
• This mechanical payout system is the only method, besides gravity, that can provide overload protection/response during a power off/failure or emergency stop condition.
• By using this new innovative design the customer enjoys the benefit of instantaneous and fast reaction in overload situations while retaining the benefit of slow speed operation during normal running for easy adjustment.
• All these advantages are achieved at a very cost effective rate.
• Because the system is fitted to the low speed side of the winch, maintenance and maintenance costs will be kept to a minimum.
• This system is available on both our single speed and two speed take-up winches.
• Existing winches can be upgraded with this system.
• Winch sizes as per standard take-up winches.

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