Flexicon has unveiled a new mobile drum tipper with safety cage that allows for hands-free, automated dumping of bulk solid materials from 115 to 200 litre drums throughout a plant.
The TIP-TITE Drum Tipper features a three-sided carbon steel cage with safety interlocked doors mounted on a mobile frame with quick-acting jack screws for stability.
A platform raises the drum hydraulically, creating a dust-tight seal between the rim of the drum and the underside of a discharge cone.
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A second hydraulic cylinder then tips the platform-hood assembly, stopping it at dump angles of 45, 60 or 90 degrees with a motion-dampening feature, causing the spout of the discharge cone to mate with a gasketed receiving ring on the lid of an enclosed hopper that charges a flexible screw conveyor.
A pneumatically-actuated slide gate at the spout can be opened once the discharge cone has sealed to the receiving ring to discharge material, and then closed before returning the drum to its original position, with no dust emitted throughout the cycle.
Built from carbon steel with stainless steel material contact surfaces, the drum tipper is also available in all-stainless steel finished to food, dairy or pharmaceutical standards. Optional cone adapters allow for safe, dust-tight dumping of small-diameter drums and pails.