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Portable, Height-Adjustable Flexible Screw Conveyor System for Plastic Pellets
This customer required a solution to quickly transfer a high volume of plastic pellets from supersacks to rail cars. The system needed to be portable to fill the various inlets of the rail car and needed to be easily moved across rough, varying terrain. The system also needed to be adjustable to reach the height of the railcar but lowered in order to be brought indoors for storage when not in use. The system included an integral operator platform/base that also serves as a counter weight to the discharge head of the conveyor. This base incorporated fork pockets and large 12” pneumatic rubber swivel casters for easy movement. An 8” air cylinder controls the adjustment of the position of the discharge head. An integral operator panel with VFD controls the operation of the screw conveyor.