Flexicon dairy dumping-conveying system

Flexicon’s manual dumping system with integral conveyor and separate dust collector is suitable for dairy powders, pharmaceutical products and contamination-sensitive bulk foods.

Designed and finished to 3-A sanitary standards, the system comprises a manual dumping station with surge hopper, flexible screw conveyor and support boom on a castor-mounted frame, plus a separate mobile dust collection system that can be configured alongside or remotely.

The hopper is equipped with a mechanical agitator assembly to promote uninterrupted flow into the charging adapter of a 3 m flexible screw conveyor with a stainless steel screw engineered for the conveyed product. Fully enclosed in a polymer tube inclined at 45 degrees, the flexible screw is the only moving part contacting material, and is driven by an electric motor beyond the point of discharge.

A quick-release end cap allows removal of the flexible screw from the lower end of the crevice-free conveyor tube for rapid sanitising and inspection of both components. Safety interlocks prevent operation of the conveyor during screw removal or separation of the dust hood from the surge hopper.

The standalone dust collector is equipped with an automatic reverse-pulse filter cleaning system with stainless steel air reservoir rated at 99.99% collection efficiency for materials with particle sizes of 5 microns or greater. The raised height of the unit allows gravity discharging of accumulated dust into mobile bins, drums or other vessels for disposal, or reintroduction in select non-dairy applications.