| A new Bulk Bag Dump Weigh Batch Station with | | | | Feeds ingredients to a central weigh hopper |
| integral mechanical conveyor collects dust created | | | | mechanically, and transports weighed batches |
| during manual dumping of bulk materials from bags, | | | | pneumatically |
| boxes, drums and other containers, and discharges | | | | This automated Bulk Bag Batch Weighing System |
| bulk material by weight. | | | | from Flexicon feeds ingredients to a central weigh |
| A high velocity vacuum fan draws airborne dust from | | | | hopper at mezzanine level using four flexible screw |
| the operator's atmosphere onto two cartridge filters. | | | | conveyors, and transports pre-weighed batches to a |
| Automatic reverse-pulse filter cleaning maintains | | | | downstream blender using a pneumatic conveying |
| efficient, continuous operation by releasing short | | | | system. |
| blasts of compressed plant air inside the cartridge | | | | The BFC Series bulk bag dischargers feature a |
| filter on alternating cycles, causing dust build-up on | | | | cantilevered I-beam with electric hoist and trolley to |
| the outer filter surfaces to fall into the hopper. Filters | | | | raise and position bulk bags without the use of a |
| are readily accessed by removing the interior baffle, | | | | forklift. The units are equipped with FL0W-FLEXER |
| and replaced using quick-disconnect fittings. | | | | bag activators* that raise and lower opposite bottom |
| The weigh hopper discharges into an integral flexible | | | | edges of the bag at timed intervals, loosening |
| screw conveyor supported by a boom that | | | | compacted materials and promoting material flow into |
| cantilevers from the frame of the weigh batching | | | | the discharge spout. As the bag lightens, the stroke |
| system, the entire weight of which is supported on | | | | of the bag activators increases, raising the bottom of |
| four load cells, allowing loss-of-weight batching. When | | | | the bag into a steep "V" shape, promoting total |
| an operator selects a batch weight and initiates a | | | | evacuation of material from the bag with no manual |
| cycle, a controller runs the flexible screw conveyor, | | | | intervention. |
| first at high feed rate, then at trickle feed rate, | | | | Each discharger is equipped with a surge hopper |
| stopping material flow once the accurate batch | | | | discharging into an enclosed Flexicon flexible screw |
| weight has been discharged. | | | | conveyor. A weigh batching system controller starts |
| A mechanical hopper agitator improves the flow of | | | | and stops each conveyor to weigh ingredients in |
| material into the intake adapter of the flexible screw | | | | sequence, first at high feed rate for rapid filling, then |
| conveyor, which handles both free- and | | | | at dribble feed rate, stopping material flow once the |
| non-free-flowing materials that pack, cake or smear, | | | | accurate batch weight has been discharged. weigh |
| with no separation of blended products. | | | | batching system software allows mid-batch bag |
| The weigh batching system is constructed of | | | | changes and automatically compensates for |
| stainless steel finished to Bulk standards, and is also | | | | material-in-flight by stopping the conveyor in advance |
| available in mild steel with durable industrial coatings. | | | | of attaining final batch weights. |
| The company also manufactures stand-alone flexible | | | | The batching controller then activates a rotary airlock |
| screw conveyors, pneumatic conveying systems, | | | | valve to discharge the pre-weighed batch into a |
| bulk bag unloaders, bulk bag conditioners, bulk bag | | | | pneumatic conveyor line terminating at a Flexicon |
| fillers, lift-and-seal drum dumpers, weigh batching and | | | | filter receiver positioned above a ribbon blender (not |
| blending systems, and automated plant-wide systems | | | | shown).weigh batching system components are |
| to food, dairy, pharmaceutical and industrial standards. | | | | available constructed of carbon steel with durable |
| | | | industrial finish, or stainless steel finished to industrial |
| Bulk Bag weigh batching system with Pneumatic and | | | | food, dairy or pharmaceutical standards. |
| Flexible Screw Conveyors | | | | |