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Wheel Handling
Blue Arc Engineering has done several projects for automotive wheel manufacturers. Through these projects, several products have been developed that tend to repeat in this industry. A few of these products are highlighted below.
Shot Blast Remover - Wheel Flipper
During the manufacturing process of aluminum wheels, they are subjected to a shot blast process. Some of this fine shot is trapped in the recesses of the top of the wheels. The customer needed a fast and efficient method of removing this shot.
Wheel Vertical Lift
Blue Arc Engineering has made several styles of lifts to vertically raise or lower wheels to different conveyor elevations. Typically the wheel delivery conveyors will run overhead to free up floor space, so the vertical lifts are used to get wheels into and out of manufacturing processes such as machining, shot blast, buffer storage, etc.
Wheel Centering Device
The centering device we have developed utilizes simple mechanical principles to center different diameter and weight wheels on the same conveyor line.