Sourcing a separate conveyor for every UV chemistry a line runs means separate maintenance schedules, separate spare-parts inventories, and a floor full of near-identical machines doing one job each — the CDM™ chassis exists so that isn’t necessary.
A Conveyor Built to Take Whatever Lamp Head the Process Needs
The Incure CDM™ is a UV conveyor belt chassis on a 9-inch polypropylene belt, adjustable from 1.5 to 12.0 ft/min, built to run interchangeable lamp heads — UV LED flood (L64, L88), UV LED focused beam (M51, M62), or conventional mercury-arc UV flood (F100, F200, F400, F500) in x2AC or x2A configurations. The chassis ships without a lamp head; the configuration is selected to match part width, intensity, and UV spectrum requirement.
Belt Speed Is the UV Dose Dial
Belt speed adjusts continuously from 1.5 to 12.0 ft/min, and that single control directly sets the UV dose delivered to each part passing under the lamp — slow the belt for a deeper cure on thick or pigmented layers, or run it faster for higher throughput once the process is qualified. Dose tuning happens at the speed control alone, with no lamp change, reflector swap, or reprogramming required between adjustments.
One Chassis, LED or Mercury-Arc — a Chemistry Change Doesn’t Mean a New Conveyor
A line that shifts from an LED-cured adhesive to a broadband mercury-arc-cured coating typically means sourcing a second piece of capital equipment. The CDM™ chassis avoids that: swapping between an LED head (L64, L88, M51, M62) and a mercury-arc head (F100, F200, F400, F500 in x2AC/x2A configurations) is a lamp-head change on the same conveyor, not a new machine purchase or a new footprint on the floor.
Confirming which lamp-head configuration actually fits a given part width and cure chemistry is worth doing before ordering. Email Us with the process details and Incure can recommend a configuration.
Up to 8-Inch Part Width, Lamp-Dependent
The 9-inch belt (polypropylene standard, anti-static optional) clears parts up to 8 inches wide on the L88 flood configuration, or up to 5 inches wide on F400/F500 configurations — part width capacity scales with whichever lamp head is fitted, not with the conveyor alone. Curing height ranges from 0.5″–2.0″ on the LED heads (L64, L88, M51, M62) up to 3.0″–6.5″ on the F400/F500 heads, reflecting the different working-distance requirements of LED versus mercury-arc output.
Control Integration Depends on the Lamp Head
PLC, RS-232, and foot-switch signal inputs are available on the UV LED configurations, with switchable timer or continuous operating modes for line integration — control options that the mercury-arc configurations on the same chassis don’t carry, since those are governed by belt speed alone. For a line being designed around PLC interlocks, part-present sensing, or cure-cycle logging, that’s a real factor in choosing an LED head over an arc head beyond intensity and wavelength.
Physical and Electrical Specifications
Chassis dimensions: 137 × 36 × 41 cm; weight 28.7 kg. Power input is auto-ranging 100–240 V, 50/60 Hz, with forced-air cooling. Ordering part numbers are assigned per lamp-head configuration and wavelength rather than to the chassis alone, since the chassis is never sold without a head fitted.
For Non-Polymer Belt Requirements
Processes that require a non-polymer belt surface — where the polypropylene belt isn’t compatible with the parts or the environment — run the same F400 and F500 heads on the Incure CDM™ Compact, a separate chassis built around a 9-inch stainless-steel wire belt instead. Confirm belt-material requirements against the process before specifying the standard CDM™ or the Compact variant.
Matched Focused-Beam and Flood Options
Because the CDM™ chassis accepts both the focused-beam M-Series™ heads and the wider flood heads, the choice isn’t only about part width — it’s also about whether the bond interface needs a selective, defined beam or a full-footprint flood. The Incure M-Series™ UV Focused Beam Curing Systems M51 and M62 heads deliver higher peak irradiance to a narrower zone; the Incure L-Series™ UV LED Flood Lamps L64 and L88 heads cover the full lane width at once. Wavelength selection across either LED family should be confirmed against the target adhesive’s photoinitiator absorption peak before ordering.
Weighing LED Versus Mercury-Arc Beyond Just Spectrum
The choice between an LED head and a mercury-arc head on the CDM™ chassis isn’t only about wavelength coverage — it also carries a real maintenance-economics difference. LED configurations are rated at greater than 20,000 hours of service life with typical intensity loss capped around 20% over that period; the mercury-arc F-Series™ heads run closer to 2,000 hours before bulb replacement. On a continuous multi-shift line, that’s roughly a tenfold difference in how often the conveyor comes down for lamp maintenance, which is worth weighing against the arc lamps’ broader spectral output (UVA, UVB, and visible light to 420 nm) for chemistries that specifically need that broadband coverage rather than a single factory-configured LED wavelength.
Belt Width Sets an Outer Limit Regardless of Lamp Head
The 9-inch belt width is a fixed physical constraint of the chassis itself — no lamp-head configuration can cure a part wider than the belt can carry, even where a given head’s curing footprint would technically cover more area. Confirming part width against both the belt’s 9-inch capacity and the specific lamp head’s own maximum width (which varies from 1 inch on the M51 focused-beam configuration up to 8 inches on the L88 flood configuration) avoids specifying a head whose rated coverage exceeds what the belt itself can actually transport through the cure zone.
Sizing the Right Chassis for the Line
The CDM™ chassis is sold with a lamp-head configuration selected at order — L64, L88, M51, M62, or an F-Series x2AC/x2A configuration — and ordering part numbers are assigned per configuration and wavelength. Operators running the LED configurations should confirm eyewear is rated to the Incure Vison™ eye protection specification for the intensity in use. For a full review of an inline curing line’s part width, throughput, and chemistry requirements, Contact Our Team.
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