Key Technology Iso-Glide vibratory conveyor

Key Technology’s Iso-Glide vibratory conveyor achieves a motion that resembles horizontal motion, which maximises sanitation while offering gentle handling and quiet operation.

It is an engineered modification of Key’s Iso-Flo vibratory conveyor.

Iso-Glide can perform a range of product handling and packaging distribution functions, including scale feed applications. It is particularly suited to many frozen food processors.

Iso-Glide allows processors to experience the continuous self-cleaning benefits of horizontal motion conveying but on an Iso-Flo platform. Product virtually slides along the stainless steel conveyor bed, which prevents the build-up of coatings, oils and seasonings. By limiting vertical acceleration to almost 1 g, Iso-Glide helps reduce plant-level noise that traditional direct drive or other vibratory conveyors can produce with conveying surface-to-product contact.

Iso-Glide uses an independent, frame-mounted drive and spring arm assemblies that distribute energy equally to all parts of the conveyor bed in a controlled, natural-frequency operation. This operating principle minimises vibration being transferred to the structural support, reducing the cost of installation and enabling the conveyor to be installed exactly where it is most beneficial - suspended from overhead, supported from the floor or mounted to other machinery.

The conveyor uses the same components as other Iso-Flo conveyors, including StrongArm spring arms, Iso-Drive energy units and real-time SmartArm monitors. For food processors with installed Iso-Flo conveyors, this commonality eliminates the need to purchase and inventory additional spare parts.

Processors can change the speed and stroke of Iso-Glide in the field to adjust the rate at which product moves. This flexibility enables processors to efficiently handle a wide range of products. Key can design Iso-Glide with a variety of custom and standard slide gates, proportional gates and tip gates as well as various bias, flared and conical discharges to transfer products smoothly.