Van Beek, Drunen, the Netherlands, recently supplied a specially adapted feed screw to bagging systems manufacturer Premier Tech Chronos, whose client was a major manufacturer of milk powder. The requirement was for a feed screw to deliver powder to a vertical dosing screw. Because of the restricted space available at the Swiss milk powder manufacturing plant, Van Beek was not able to install the feed screw horizontally, so powder input had to be carried out at an angle. It also had to be possible to clean the screw, but there was insufficient space for cleaning hatches.

 

Van Beek therefore proposed a screw mounted on rails that could be slid right out manually. To ensure that one person could safely remove the screw, which weighs about 200kg, a hand winch was specified. It is very important for the screw to be easy to clean because the process line handles different products.  In the past 15 years Premier Tech Chronos is reported to have purchased over a hundred Van Beek screw conveyors. www.van-beek.nl

 

 

Computer-generated image of the feed screw arrangement