Power Transmission and Conveyor Safety
Guard Against Rotating Hazards
End Shaft Bearing Covers
Commonly found on one or both sides of powered conveyors with shafts protruding greater than 1/2 the diameter, keyways must be free of burrs or filled in as to not create a cut or wrap point and can be mitigated with these covers.
Pillow Block Covers
Pillow block bearings are typically used on jib cranes, industrial fans, and rolling mills where pull-in and wrapping hazards are exposed, which can be eliminated with these covers.
Coupling Covers for Pumps and Motors
Chemicals such as oil, coolants, and hydraulic fluid can be found in tank farms for filling, transferring, and emptying presenting pinch, shear, and crush points, then eliminating through complete encasement.
Chain and Belt Covers
Drive, roller, and conveyor chain along with v-belts, timing and serpentine belts used to drive systems need to be covered due hazards presented through constant motion at high-speeds.
Split Shaft Covers
Large bearings, sprocket hubs, and drive shafts are unable to be easily removed but still are required to be covered to eliminate risk of injury using split shaft cover guards.
Conveyor Covers
Conveyor covers used to cover moving parts such as drive components over long spans of a conveyor spans in a straight or curved configuration to prevent pull-in or trapped hazard exposure.
Take-up Bearing Covers
Take-up bearings with adjustment mechanism exposed presents rotating hazards which can be covered while still allowing for full rotation of bearings within a given system.
Nip Guards for Idler or Powered Rollers
These custom-designed guards are used to help mitigate against entanglement of an in-running nip points from downward pressure of a conveyor belt causing a draw-in, crushing, or trapping hazard of there's not at least 50mm of clearance at the nip point on such machines as conveyors, paper converting, corrugated, and printing presses. Maximum opening in the guard allowed to avoid the danger area is .196" or 5m.
Drive Belt or Drive Roller Guards
Use at the end of powered conveyors when setup as a pass-through area to protect against wrap, nip, pull-in points, and entanglement. Also covers rotating shafts at the driver rollers inside the frame rails. Improve productivity, enhance safety, maximize usable space.
Fixed Return Idler Roller Guards
Guard non-powered rollers, but driven by the return of the conveyor belt to prevent entanglement within a 7' reach of operators. Guarding required unless belt can leave the idlers with a clearance of 1.96" (50mm) otherwise trapping or crushing can occur.
