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Subject: loading clylinders through small opening
Category: Science > Technology
Asked by: aaliii-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 13 Sep 2005 17:02 PDT
Expires: 13 Oct 2005 17:02 PDT
Question ID: 567750
I need to convey granular material approximately a 1/4 inch mostly
solid cylinder which has a very rough surface meduim density and can
be very dusty.  After it is conveyed it must be prusuaded to fall into
a round opening approximately 1 inch in diameter.  Several thousand of
these cylinders must padd through the opening as fast as possible. The
process must be repeated many thousands of times in an area of less
than 30 square feet.  The total amount of material that must pass
through such openings cab be up to 225000 pounds. For efficiency up to
half of the openings must have material passing through it at any
given time.  How do I get lots of material in a small opening and
quickly and get rid of dust?
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Subject: Re: loading clylinders through small opening
From: myoarin-ga on 14 Sep 2005 06:50 PDT
 
Just to try to understand what you want:  
It sounds like you are filling pills in bottles or maybe pellet
fertilizer or hamster fodder or the like.  Is this a halfway correct
image?
How large are the containers with one inch openings?
What is their material?  (Presumably, they are not containers that
could be filled and then have the top put in place:  image: a Morton
Salt container.)
30 square feet?  That is a 5x6 ft closet.  30x30 feet??
225,000 lbs of material?  In what time frame?

Obviously, there will be a problem of stoppage if the 1/4 inch
material must fit through a 1 inch opening.  The pharmaceutical
industry managed this problem in the days when pills were sold in
bottles, but that has probably occurred to you, and seems not to meet
your volume requirements.

Sorry about all the questions, but any additional information you can
provide will help find an answer  - I hope.
Post it as a Clarification to the question, rather than as a comment,
so that a Researcher will have all the information in one area.

This is, of course, just a free comment.

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