CASTING COOLING
CONTROLLED COOLING.
Once a casting is birthed from the mold, you have to reduce the temperature of the casting before you can perform further processing. General Kinematics casting cooling solutions apply controlled cooling to effectively reduce casting temperatures at the speed you need.HEAVY-DUTY DESIGNS.
Casting cooling conveyors experience a wide range of difficult situations: abrasive sand and castings, moisture and humidity, and extreme temperatures. Environments like this require heavy-duty machines designed to compensate for these fluctuations. GK casting cooling conveyors are designed to handle abrasive materials and the expansion and contraction from heat. More work in less space. GK’s SPIRA-COOL® has revolutionized foundry plant design and operation. What used to take hundreds of feet horizontally to cool your castings can now be accomplished in a single compact footprint. Not only does this reduce the cost of building expansion, but it also reduces your HVAC ductwork requirements, as the SPIRA-COOL® uses single intake and discharge points.
SPIRA-COOL® CASTING COOLING SPIRALS
General Kinematics SPIRA-COOL® Casting Cooling Conveyors save you space and reduce your foundation and maintenance costs. Custom designed to your process, each vibratory SPIRA-COOL® can replace over 400 feet of vibrating casting cooling conveyors in a single, small footprint while elevating your castings for further sorting or shot blast operations. Our patented air chamber design cools castings efficiently and quietly. The vibratory spiral design shuffles castings in an oriented path with no casting damage. An added bonus is the addition of sand collection built into the deck, which is deposited to a single vibrating sand removal conveyor. The SPIRA-COOL® Casting Cooling Spiral operates with 1/3 the horsepower requirements over competitive designs with no vibration transmitted into surrounding areas.
The SPIRA-COOL® Casting Cooling Spiral contains all the ventilation duct work in a single location reducing the ventilation costs and quickly cooling your castings with a high velocity nozzle system. Air stream is designed with a patented dropout box reducing fines emission to your dust collection system.
FEATURES:
Energy efficient low horsepower drives vibrate entire spiral.
Easy maintenance of drive components, with quick replaceability.
Capability of handling heavy and fragile castings.
Decks can be designed specifically for the casting you wish to cool.
Quiet operation, even when fully loaded with material.
Replaces up to 400′ of cooling conveyor, saving you considerable space within your facility.
Elevates product for further processing down the line.
VIBRATING CASTING COOLING CONVEYORS
Casting Cooling Vibrating Conveyors from General Kinematics gently convey and cool castings. Custom designed cooling conveyors can include full hooding, air handling systems, stroke control, and more. General Kinematics vibrating conveyors are custom engineered and tuned to run near their natural frequency. This design allows the vibrating units to operate so that 90% of the force required to move your product is naturally created. The remaining 10% is provided using General Kinematics low horsepower, high efficiency drive system.
Vibrating casting cooling conveyors can be designed in infinite lengths and widths. For constrained space applications, view our SPIRA-COOL® Casting Cooling Spirals.
Custom designed to meet your process objectives.
Balanced or unbalanced designs available.
Extra Heavy-Duty for years of trouble-free service.
