Drawing on experience
November 1st 2006 At Cumberland Pencil Co, materials handling, particularly the handling of China clay, a semi free-flowing powder with a tendency to fluidise and aerateused, needed reviewing. A number of options were considered and the company eventually settled on a mechanical, bulk solids handling system designed and manufactured by Flexicon. It comprised a bulk bag discharge frame with a cantilevered "I" beam, a receiving hopper to feed a flat screw configured conveyor with a discharge outlet to a second hopper mounted on load cells for gain-in-weight control and a pneumatically operated slide gate valve to discharge the measured batch. The final touch was the control panel to oversee the management of the automatic operation. More articles from Flexicon (Europe) Limited: | 
