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Article: Powdered milk falls in line: Transylvania Vocational Services installs a circular separator and flexible screw conveyor, and improves its filling rate to 45 bags per minute.
- Article from:
- Packaging Digest
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Transylvania Vocational Services (TVS) in Brevard, NC, likes to do things in bulk. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sends 55 lb bags of dry milk to TVS to package into smaller bags for food banks and schools. The challenge for TVS is transforming the bulk bags to the small, 2 lb bags and to do it an efficient manner.
The solution consists of a 48-in.-sq bag dump station through which two workers unload powder that falls into a 48-in.-diameter circular vibratory separator from Kason Corp. The separator scalps paper pieces from out bags containing the powdered milk product. The powder falls from the screener's discharge outlet into a 25-cu-ft-capacity ...