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The Main Scale:
Ingredients
arrive from overhead bins by use of augers, slde gates and delivery belts. The
original scale dial can be seen on the left.
The right face
of this scale contains a saddle tank; a liquid tank that borrows the loadcell from the
main scale, while keeping the liquid away from the dry ingredients. It must wait for
the drys to be filled. |
Liquid Tanks:
Separate
liquid tanks add a significant expense, but they improve the process in two significant
ways--
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simultaneously with the drys, saving time,
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| Use smaller
loadcells for accuracy, weighing in 0.1 or 0.5# increments, instead of 5 or 10#
increments.
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Mixer, surge bin and surge screw:
The scales and
liquid dump into the mixer, where they mix for a minimum time, dump into
a surge bin and are typically augered to a leg, which lifts the product up for
distribution into finish feed bins.
Systems that
route product to storage bins, typically run many batches back to back of the same ration.
They are complex to build, but they can be very efficient in terms of tons per hour of
feed produced. |
| Routing with turnheads: Whether the
Flowcon is to provide a 100% automatic control, or just monitor proofs to verify the
routing, we can provide control to meet your exact need. |
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Routing with slides:
Routing often
uses a combination of methods-- augers and slide gates over bins, belts and 'Y' gates.
Finish Feed
storage makes it possible to continue feeding even when the mill is down for repair or
maintenance. |
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| Finish feed bins: Flowcon has
a delivery
system for full finish feed inventory
control. Using bunkreader data, it can automatically schedule the batcher's production, to
maintain inventories based on the bunkreader's call requests. |
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