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The AFC SPIRALFEEDER® flexible screw conveyor from process equipment manufacturer Automated Flexible Conveyor, Clifton, NJ, features a hopper with optional vibrator. Specified to promote smooth feeding of non-free flowing materials and ingredients, the vibrating hopper gently fluidizes powders, pellets, granules, mixtures, and other bulk materials and advances them down the hopper towards the rotating screw. Material moves consistently from infeed to discharge at a preset flow rate without bridging, clumping, ratholing, or sticking to the hopper walls.
Ideal for transferring salt, fine sugar, wheat flour, corn starch, fly ash, lime, plastic resin, and other non-free flowing materials and ingredients, the vibratory hopper allows adjustments to the vibration to accommodate variations in the material. As moisture content, bulk density, particle size and shape, and other material properties change from batch to batch, the versatile hopper may be adjusted on the fly to continue achieving the ideal flow rate.
The AFC SPIRALFEEDER with the vibrating hopper is custom-designed and manufactured for each installation at the company's New Jersey facility. Product and material testing are offered in the on-site test laboratory.
