News Releases
February 7, 2025
How Does Ambient Temperature Affect Your Vibrator’s Performance?
Uras Motors are designed to withstand tough conditions, keeping both effectiveness and bearing life high, but extreme temperatures—whether too hot or too cold—can have a significant impact on their service life and reliability.
High Temperatures (Above 40°C/104°F)
• Can shorten the lifespan of bearings and motor windings.
• At 60°C, bearing life is reduced to nearly one-fourth of its normal expectancy.
• Insulation helps, but proactive cooling solutions may be necessary.
Low Temperatures (Below -15°C/5°F)
• Can cause startup failure if proper precautions aren’t taken.
• Vibrators in storage should be covered and inspected every five months.
• Before startup, the motor should be warmed to -10°C/14°F, with cables inspected and the shaft rotated.
If your application requires operation beyond these temperature limits, it’s essential to take preventative measures to avoid premature wear and lower B10 life.
Need a solution for extreme temperatures?
At Uras Techno, we can help you find a vibration motor solution tailored to your conditions. Reach out to discuss your application!
January 30, 2025
Tough Linings for Tough Materials
Picture this: you got your coke flowing out from the hopper onto your feeder. The Uras is vibrating steadily, moving everything right along to the screen waiting below. You know the vibrator is going to last through the long haul, but what about the trough of your feeder…?
Ceramic is the Uras of linings: it’s tough, has a prolonged wear life, and looks great on kitchen floors. Okay maybe the comparison isn’t exactly 1:1, but the point is, it’s tough. Ceramic liners are designed to be extremely resistant to abrasion even with rough material flows. Coke is one such material that can be extremely abrasive, so for this feeder, we decided to use ceramic as a trough lining.
This whole rig is powered by two 4 pole Uras Vibrators, and made special for our buddies in the mining industry.
January 23, 2025
Multiple Levels of Coke Screening
Why adjust your entire layout to fit our machine, when we can adjust our machine to fit your layout! A customer required a double deck separator with three levels of screening to separate coke along with miscellaneous ore, but the processes being fed into had quite a bit of distance between them. So, our engineers had the idea to attach long pipes to the outputs using u-bolts. The pipes are connected directly to the frame of the machine to prevent any damage that could be caused by vibration. This solved our customer’s problem, and also produced a pretty fantastic looking machine at the same time.
The drive units used are two 6-pole, 220V / 60Hz KEE-18-6CW Uras Vibrators, ensuring high reliability and low-maintenance.
December 12, 2024
Feeding High Temperature Rubber
A customer came to us requiring a machine to feed high temperature milled rubber from a powder coating process (to reduce adhesiveness) to the next step in their recycling process. Their main requests were a way to cool the material during transport, easy movement of the machine as well as consistent and easy supervision of the whole conveying process of the rubber. Easy!
✓ added reliability and low maintenance costs due to the KEE-3-4C Uras Vibrator
✓ easily attachable/detachable transparent polycarbonate cover
✓ water cooling jacket
✓ control panel connected to frame of machine to prevent damage from vibration