Application Solution
For the London tunnel conveyors, NORD supplies helical bevel geared motors with a double-sided, smooth output shaft. An expansion coupling transfers the torque to the belt conveyor. One benefit of this versatile drive design is that it limits the scope of geared motor models that must be managed. In addition, the double-sided types allow for particularly flexible and comfortable adaptations of the conveyor systems to a new site of operation, should H+E wish to reuse them in another project.
<h3>Seamlessly Constructed</h3>
All gears suitable for horizontal and vertical conveyor systems are generally based on a singlepiece cast housing with no joints or seams, which ensures particularly high resilience against torque and radial forces. This applies even to very powerful industrial gear units providing up to 242,000 Nm, which are required for extreme conveyor inclines and for moving very large amounts of conveyed material. With its offset bearing shaft arrangement, NORD‘s UNICASE design also ensures very compact dimensions, but allows for the use of larger bearings, which achieves enhanced durability.
<h3>Readily Available</h3>
NORD is able to deliver most gears and geared motors for conveying applications with minimal lead times throughout the world. Even in a long-term project such as “London Crossrail,” this has been a boon to the customer: when H+E was commissioned to supply additional short conveyor belts for unforeseeable manual excavation work in a matter of weeks, NORD delivered all required drive technology within five days of the order.