Split-frame unloader for bulk bags and rigid bins.(PLANT & EQUIPMENT)(Brief article)

Food Trade Review, August, 2006

Bulk solids handling specialists, Flexicon (Europe) Ltd., have announced a new, Split Frame Unloader that allows discharging of bulk bags and rigid totes from mezzanines and other low headroom areas.

Unlike fixed-frame unloaders that require sufficient headroom above the top of the frame to clear the load-backrest of a forklift, the Split Frame Unloader allows the upper frame to be re-located by forklift onto the plant floor, loaded with a bulk bag and then resited back onto the sub-frame within several centimeters of the ceiling.

For discharging from bulk bags, the sub-frame is equipped with a Power-Cinchera flow control valve that cinches the bag spout concentrically on a horizontal axis for easy tie-offs, and vertically in a tight zigzag pattern to...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research

 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement