Vossloh Kiepe Safety Solutions for Conveyors

Vossloh Kiepe supplies products and services for public transportation services, state and private railroads, the supplier industries and plant construction for power plant, open cast mining, and conveyor engineering. Electrical equipment by Vossloh Kiepe is used all over the world.

Kiepe Elektrik – monitoring devices and safety switches for conveyors

In the bulk goods industry, the brand Kiepe is well known for robust and reliable premium-quality products for monitoring and controlling conveyor systems. Since the late 1960’s, an estimated length of 50,000km of conveyor systems all over the world have been equipped with Kiepe products.

With a worldwide distribution net, Kiepe is always close to your operational areas.

Kiepe products are made for heavy-duty safety and monitoring applications, such as mining, storage and handling of ore and coal, bulk material seaports, power plants, steelmaking and cement production.

We specialise in:

• Pull-rope emergency stop switches
• Belt misalignment switches
• Robust limit switches
• Speed monitoring devices
• Belt-wear monitoring

Pull rope emergency stop switches type HEN, NTS or SEG

Function: heavy-duty pull-rope switch for emergency stop with latching and snap-action function with manual reset lever.

Design features:

• Robust aluminum alloy, cast iron or UV-stabilised, fibreglass reinforced plastic enclosures
• Protection class IP 65/67
• Positive making, cam operated contacts
• Horizontal trip force maximum 40N
• Detection of pull-rope break with external compensation springs

Optional: extended temperature range, signal lamp, two-wire-long distance Bus-Modul, ATEX, accessories for installation of pull rope system.

Misalignment switches type HES, SLS or SEL

Function: heavy-duty switch for detection of unacceptable belt drift to prevent damage and destruction of belt and machine.

Design features:

• Robust aluminum alloy, cast iron or UV-stabilised, fibreglass reinforced plastic enclosures
• Roller rod stainless steel
• Protection Class IP 65/67
• Positive making, cam operated snap action change over contacts
• Adjustable switching points

Optional: extended temperature range, two-wire-long distance Bus-Modul, ATEX.

Robust limit switches type HER, SLR or REL

Function: heavy-duty switch-off for application in bulk handling system.

Design features:

• Robust aluminum alloy, cast iron or UV-stabilised, fibreglass reinforced plastic enclosures
• Positive making, cam operated snap action change over contacts
• Adjustable switching points

Optional: extended temperature range, two-wire-long distance Bus-Modul.

Speed monitoring devices

Function: switches, sensors and monitoring for rotational speed and standstill of conveyor drives.

Design features:

• Variants of enclosures, couplings and flanges
• Electromechanical and opto-electrical signal generation or inductive pulse transducer
• Monitoring of underspeed and standstill, start-up delay

Belt wear monitor

Function: a rope, which is stretched under the belt detects protruding parts and disconnects a switching contact.

Design features:

• Voltage free contacts or 10V-30V DC pnp output
• Protection class IP 67
• Installation material included