Flexicon mobile bag dump station with compactor

The latest mobile bag dump station from Flexicon Corporation incorporates a flexible screw conveyor and bag compactor and allows bulk material transfer from handheld sacks, pails and boxes into elevated process equipment and storage vessels throughout the plant.

Mounted on a mobile frame with locking castors and fold-down step, the dust-free system features a bag disposal chute through the sidewall of the hopper hood, allowing the operator to pass empty bags directly into the bag compactor. Dust generated from bag dumping, empty bag pass-through and bag compaction is drawn away from the operator, onto the system’s two cartridge filters. Automatic reverse-pulse air nozzles release short blasts of compressed air inside the filters at timed intervals causing dust build-up on the outer surfaces to fall into the hopper, conserving usable product. Filters are readily accessed by removing the interior baffle, and replaced using quick-disconnect fittings.

The compactor employs a pneumatic air cylinder capable of compressing up to 80 bags into a removable bin. The compactor’s main door and flapper door within the bag disposal chute are equipped with safety interlocks that prevent operation of the compactor unless both doors are closed.

The hopper discharges into an enclosed flexible screw conveyor, capable of moving free-flowing and non-free-flowing bulk materials from large pellets to sub-micron powders, including products that pack, cake, seize, smear, fluidise, break apart or separate, with no separation of blended products.