Thomas
Fawcett & Sons Ltd of Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK, required a more
efficient system to pack pale ale malt into 350 kg (772 lb.) to 1,000 kg (2,205
lb.) bulk bags, sold across the UK and internationally.
Most of the company’s malt was previously supplied in 25 tonne (27.5 ton) bulk lorry loads and 25 kg (55 lb.) sacks. When the company first supplied malt in bulk bags, members of the malting staff transferred batches of malt from pre-weighed 50 kg (110 lb.) sacks into bulk bags by wheeling the sacks on a sack truck on the upper floor and tipping them into a bulk bag held on a fork lift truck on the floor below.
This was a three-person job: one filling sacks, one tipping sacks, and one operating the forklift truck.
Bulk bag filling no longer labour intensive
Installation of a Flexicon TWIN-CENTERPOST Bulk Bag Filler and flexible screw conveyor in the packing room area has created a more flexible packing operation and saved operators from double handling of the malt. Brian Hickman, Thomas Fawcett & Sons, Malting Manager, says “By installing the bulk bag filler, we save between six to eight hours of operator time each week.”
Flexible screw conveyor transports malt to bulk bag filler
A bulk storage silo was fitted with a charging adapter for connection to a Flexicon horizontally-oriented flexible screw conveyor 7.5 m (25 ft.) long and 168 mm (6.6 in.) in diameter. From the conveyor's discharge housing, malt flows through down spouting to the bulk bag filler inlet.
How bulk bags are now filled
The bulk bag filler is equipped with an adjustable fill head that can be raised or lowered to suit all popular bag heights and secured in place with two quick-release pins.
An oversized filling spout accommodates open-top bulk bags. Mounted on load cells, the unit can weigh-fill 350 to 1,000 kg (772 to 2,205 lb.) of malt into bulk bags. To fill a bag, the operator positions a 1200 x 1000 mm (47 x 39 in.) pallet on the filler deck and attaches the bag loops to each of four retractable bag hooks on the fill head.
The operator secures the bag inlet to the downspouting. The system’s PLC runs the flexible screw conveyor at a high feed rate, reducing the feed rate to trickle before stopping the conveyor when the accurate target weight has been loaded into the bag. The bag and pallet are removed by pallet jack. “Individual customer orders are typically 24 one-tonne bulk bags of malt,” says Brian Hickman.
Read the full article, HERE.
Most of the company’s malt was previously supplied in 25 tonne (27.5 ton) bulk lorry loads and 25 kg (55 lb.) sacks. When the company first supplied malt in bulk bags, members of the malting staff transferred batches of malt from pre-weighed 50 kg (110 lb.) sacks into bulk bags by wheeling the sacks on a sack truck on the upper floor and tipping them into a bulk bag held on a fork lift truck on the floor below.
This was a three-person job: one filling sacks, one tipping sacks, and one operating the forklift truck.
Bulk bag filling no longer labour intensive
Installation of a Flexicon TWIN-CENTERPOST Bulk Bag Filler and flexible screw conveyor in the packing room area has created a more flexible packing operation and saved operators from double handling of the malt. Brian Hickman, Thomas Fawcett & Sons, Malting Manager, says “By installing the bulk bag filler, we save between six to eight hours of operator time each week.”
Flexible screw conveyor transports malt to bulk bag filler
A bulk storage silo was fitted with a charging adapter for connection to a Flexicon horizontally-oriented flexible screw conveyor 7.5 m (25 ft.) long and 168 mm (6.6 in.) in diameter. From the conveyor's discharge housing, malt flows through down spouting to the bulk bag filler inlet.
How bulk bags are now filled
The bulk bag filler is equipped with an adjustable fill head that can be raised or lowered to suit all popular bag heights and secured in place with two quick-release pins.
An oversized filling spout accommodates open-top bulk bags. Mounted on load cells, the unit can weigh-fill 350 to 1,000 kg (772 to 2,205 lb.) of malt into bulk bags. To fill a bag, the operator positions a 1200 x 1000 mm (47 x 39 in.) pallet on the filler deck and attaches the bag loops to each of four retractable bag hooks on the fill head.
The operator secures the bag inlet to the downspouting. The system’s PLC runs the flexible screw conveyor at a high feed rate, reducing the feed rate to trickle before stopping the conveyor when the accurate target weight has been loaded into the bag. The bag and pallet are removed by pallet jack. “Individual customer orders are typically 24 one-tonne bulk bags of malt,” says Brian Hickman.
Read the full article, HERE.
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