Spiroflow, Clitheroe, UK, recently supplied a T5 bulk bag discharger and a model 67 flexible screw conveyor to sanitary-ware manufacturer Thomas Dudley Ltd. The equipment works in tandem to unload additives from bulk bags and deliver the material to the inlet at the top of a continuous casting machine where the product is mixed with solid fillers and liquid binders. Trials carried out at Spiroflow’s test centre helped determine the optimum combination of discharger and spiral conveyor.
The T5 is designed for installations where restricted headroom causes problems in lifting bulk bags into position on the discharger or where only a low-lift forklift truck is available. The discharger can be coupled directly to a flexible spiral or other suitable conveyor to meter product from the bulk bag either volumetrically or by weight. Materials may then be fed direct to either mixing or other process equipment to provide a fully automatic powder unloading, proportioning and transfer system. www.spiroflow.com

Spiroflow T5 bulk bag discharger plus flexible screw conveyor at the West Midlands plant of Thomas Dudley

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