| A combination Bulk Bag and Manual Dump Batching | | | | Flow-Flexer® bag activators raise and lower |
| System weighs bulk materials that are discharged | | | | bottom edges of the bag into a steep "V" shape, |
| from bulk bags and/or manually dumped from sacks, | | | | directing material into the bag outlet spout. |
| boxes and other containers, and empties the batch | | | | Immediately above the clamp ring is a |
| into mobile storage bins. | | | | Power-Cincher® flow control valve employing a |
| The sanitary system consists of a bulk bag unloading | | | | series of curved, articulated rods that cinch the bag |
| frame, two hoppers, and two flexible screw | | | | spout concentrically, allowing dust-free retying and |
| conveyors that feed a central gain-in-weight hopper | | | | removal of partially-empty bags. |
| under automated control. | | | | A removable bag-lifting frame with bag strap hooks |
| A programmable controller with manual start button | | | | and fork tubes allows loading of the lifting frame with |
| activates either of the flexible screw conveyors to | | | | bag intact, onto a cradle at the top of the unloader |
| load the first ingredient into the central weigh hopper | | | | frame posts. |
| at maximum feed rate. Load cells supporting the | | | | The flexible screw conveyors are said to handle a |
| hopper transmit weight gain information to the | | | | variety of free- and non-free-flowing bulk materials |
| controller, which steps-down the feed rate to dribble | | | | including products that pack, cake, smear or easily |
| prior to reaching the target weight. In the same | | | | degrade, with no separation of blended products. |
| manner, the controller starts and stops the second | | | | Material contact surfaces of the system are of |
| conveyor to load the second ingredient into the | | | | stainless steel finished to sanitary standards, with the |
| weigh hopper, and then activates the hopper's slide | | | | exception of the polymer conveyor tubes which are |
| gate valve to discharge the batch into mobile storage | | | | removable for rapid, thorough wash down. |
| bins. | | | | The floor hopper is available with a containment hood |
| The unloader features a Spout-Lock® clamp ring | | | | including integral dust collection for clean, safe handling |
| that forms a high-integrity seal between the clean | | | | of dusty materials. |
| side of the bag spout and the clean side of the | | | | The company also manufactures bulk bag |
| equipment. To promote total evacuation of material, | | | | conditioners, bulk bag fillers, pneumatic conveying |
| a Tele-Tube® telescoping tube maintains constant | | | | systems, drum-tote-box dumpers, and plant-wide |
| downward pressure on the clamp ring and bag spout, | | | | bulk handling systems with automated controls. |
| elongating the bag as it empties, while | | | | |