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Model SW-50 - Patent pending |
The Sweeper System
• Patent pending
Empties gaylords without human
intervention
The Sweeper system is designed to
automatically remove material from a gaylord type container without the need
for human intervention.
Standard
Features:
Automatic
material removal
The sweeper’s rotating action moves resin to a slotted pickup tube to be
vacuumed out of the container.
Reduces labor
No one has to manually move the pickup tube because resin is constantly
moved to the vacuum point.
Reduces waste
Effective material removal keeps resin from being thrown away.
Small footprint
Footprint is slightly more than the gaylord being unloaded.
Safer than a tilt table
The sweeper has no heavy-duty hydraulics with pinch points and low torque
and rotation speed provide inherent safety – no guards required.
Easy placement of resin
containers
A pallet jack can move the container into position…no forklift required.
Lower installation and
operation costs
The Sweeper requires no compressed air and operates on 115 V electricity,
drawing less than 2 amps.
Signal lights
Lights indicate when the unit is “ON” and when it is rotating.
Energy savings / extended
motor life
A vacuum switch allows the unit to operate only while your vacuum system is
pulling material. Thus, this system is always ready, never has to be
manually started or stopped. There is a Jog button to rotate the unit
manually.
How
It Works:
| The Sweeper
The Sweeper gets its name from the fact that
it continuously "sweeps" the top level of the contents of the
gaylord to the outer edges. The material is vacuumed up by a
slotted pickup tube that is attached to the end of a flexible
suction hose. The whole lower section descends and rotates in a
way that forces the pickup tube to vacuum up the material
without interruption, including the material that is swept into
the corners of the container. Ultimately, less than a handful of
scattered pellets remain.
- A sturdy structural steel stand that
straddles the gaylord allowing easy front access.
- A set of vertical "rails" carry a
"trolley" up and down above the gaylord.
- The trolley carries a fixed,
standard 1.5 inch aluminum material conveying tube, and is
coupled to a second tube below, that rotates.
- The lower rotating tube is driven by
a gear motor, at about 1 RPM.
- A 3 foot, flexible vacuum hose has a
short slotted pick up tube at the end to effectively vacuum up
the pellets.
- Pellets in the center are "swept" to
the outside by a cross member, that serves as the "sweeper".
- As the vertical tube rotates, the
flexible portion is dragged across the top of the pellets, in
a swept back trailing manner, reaching into each corner and
repeatedly vacuuming pellets from the sides and corners.
- A counter balanced spring-loaded
cable prevents the weight of the trolley from becoming buried
in the resin.
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