Tubular conveyor system

Press, 12 March 1985, Page 21

Tubular conveyor system

An enclosed tubular conveyor system which can handle powdered or flight, fluffy materials and eliminates dust is manufactured by the Australian firm, Production Machinery Company Pty, Ltd. Marketed under the name Floveyer, the conveyor system is distributed in New Zealand by MacEwans Machinery, Ltd. The Floveyor is an adapt-

able and versatile aeromechanical conveyor which can handle a variety of materials with densities ranging from 80kg a cubic metre to 2000 kg a cubic metre. Production Machinery Company Pty, Ltd, will exhibit the Floveyor at the Southern Machinery Show. The unit’s enclosed design makes it ideal for handling powders and light, fluffy

materials with little or no dust as well as heavy, dense materials with differing particle sizes. It can handle materials such as adhesives, breakfast foods, chemicals, confectionery, fertilisers, ice cream, minerals, pharmaceuticals. Materials handled by the Floveyor receive little damage compared with most other methods of handling. The unit is quiet, hygienic,

and can operate at any angle. The moving parts of the machine are a steel wire rope on which plastic discs are fixed at equal intervals, and two terminal sprockets. The rope assembly travels at high speed compared with chain and bucket-type machines. The discs displace both air and material and this action tends to fluidise

materials which are not generally considered to possess fluid properties. This means the Floveyor is capable of a high output which — the manufacturers claim — exceeds any other

handling system of comparable size, weight and price. The Floveyor comes in a large range of sizes. The smallest unit is 76.2 millimetres which can move 30 tonnes of wheat an hour —

or 18 tonnes of cement in the same time. The conveyor system’s top or bottom drive feature makes Floveyor extremely adaptable to different site requirements.