Ramsey

Ramsey Products has specialized in silent chain drive products for more than 80 years. Today, Ramsey is the world’s leading supplier of silent chain based solutions for industry. We offer an extensive range of silent chains, sprockets, chain driven speed reducers, transmissions, and couplings, all backed by our commitment to exceptional customer service and support.

Ramsey Take Out Arm Drives

• Fully compatible with most IS machines
• Built in overload protection option
• Maintenance free
• Greatly improved drive life
• Complete drive or retrofit kits available
• Reduced downtime and maintenance
• Suitable for 4.25" to 9.25" bottle spacing

Modern IS machines rely on Take Out Arms to efficiently and accurately transfer hollow glassware from the dead plate to the machine conveyor. When functioning properly, the take out arm is synchronized with blow molds and glassware is uniformly spaced on the conveyor. As production rates and line speeds increase, the proper functioning of the take out arm becomes especially critical.

Working with Glass Industry engineers, Ramsey has developed a new solution that greatly extends the life of Take Out arm drives. Utilizing high performance RPV silent chain in place of heat sensitive, drive belts, Ramsey’s Take Out Arm drives can provide more than 10 times the life of a typical belt driven arm. And because Ramsey drives are made from hardened steel components, stretch is eliminated and precision registration is maintained throughout the life of a drive. The bottom line is....less downtime . . . reduced maintenance cost . . .and higher output.

Ramsey Take Out Arm drives can be retrofitted to replace most existing belt drives, resulting in economical options for many companies. Ramsey drives can also be equipped with optional shear pin sprockets to provide overload protection.

Years of testing on high production glass lines have shown that no belt driven Take Out Arm provides the durability and life of a Ramsey Take Out Arm drive. Ramsey drives outlast even the highest quality belt drive, including Poly Chain®. In fact, Ramsey drives have been shown to provide over ten times the life of the best performing belt drive. This translates to greatly extended periods of maintenance free, trouble free operation.