Mining-class Bulk Bag Filler System
Flexicon’s new bulk bag filling system for
mining applications is designed to fill bulk
bags with filter cake, aggregates, abrasive
minerals, dry chemical additives and other
difficult-to-handle bulk materials. The ultraheavy-duty, skid-mounted system features a
patented Twin-Centerpost frame that maximizes strength and improves accessibility to
bag hooks while simplifying construction and
reducing cost. An integral flexible screw conveyor with heavy-duty screw, steel outer tube
and high-capacity hopper feeds the filler consistently with a broad range of free- and nonfree-flow bulk materials from large irregular
chunks to fine powders, including moist
products that pack and cake, with no separation of blended products. The filler is mounted on load cells that transmit weight gain signals to a controller that runs the conveyor at
full feed rate, and then at dribble feed rate
immediately prior to stopping the conveyor
once the target bag weight has been gained.
Standard equipment includes a forklift fill
head height adjustment to accommodate all
popular bag sizes, and a feed chute outlet
port for dust-free air displacement during filling. Automated functions include an inflatable collar to seal the bag inlet spout, an
inflator to remove creases from the bag prior
to filling, an automated vibratory densification/deaeration system to stabilize the bag,
and pneumatically retractable bag hooks that
disconnect the bag from the filler, ready for
removal by forklift.
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As featured in Womp 2013 Vol 12 - www.womp-int.com
