Horizon conveyors launches a new winch to ease maintenance

Conveyor maintenance

Horizon Conveyors' latest development offers safer and easier access during maintenance of conveyor rollers. According to Horizon, development of the new RapidWinch system followed on from talking to a number of maintenance engineers about the limitations of existing techniques.
"Belt lifters have traditionally adopted a lifting beam design to raise the conveyor belt, but these systems can be cumbersome and time consuming to set up if needed for changing a single roller or accessing a tight space," said Horizon managing director Alan Bowler. "The RapidWinch is designed to be more lightweight and portable."
The RapidWinch is a belt lifting system - based on a conventional design - that is formed by two parts that bolt onto the conveyor roller frame and uses hig..