Hopper tackles bulk bags

Flexicon (Europe) has introduced a
dedicated option for processors or
movers of bulk solids who receive
raw material in flat bottomed, single
trip, bulk bags.

The system incorporates a
receiving hopper with a centrally
mounted, pyramid shaped cutter.

Using either a fork lift truck or a
cruciform attached to an electric
hoist, an operator positions the bag
onto the discharge frame
immediately above the pyramid
shaped cutter.

As it is lowered to sit on a dust
confining, thick rubber membrane
on all four sides of the hopper, the
four-bladed cutter simultaneously
splits the bag, bottom dead centre,
enabling material to be gravity fed
into the hopper via a 35mm square
mesh to filter any loose paper or
foreign bodies.

A side-mounted access door in the
hopper facilitates removal of any
retained debris from the mesh.