True Marathon Runners - Part 1
Shut-off flap of the series Z 011-A with pneumatic doubly-acting drive EB-SYD
Ebro Armaturen delivers extremely wear-resilient shut-off flaps for demand-oriented filling and packaging of bulk goods. They have proven their outstanding stamina in continuous operation. Among others, the soft-sealing centric interim flaps of the Z 011-A series with doubly-acting pneumatic drive have proven their worth in rotating packaging systems and high performance filling systems.
Rotating packaging machines and filling systems with sealing units are used continually for filling big bags in the chemicals and food industries. They all share extremely high throughputs. Switching cycles in the four-digit range per hour are not a rare occurrence. At the same time, the material volumes to be transported are very high and the products are very abrasive, so that the complete unit of fitting and drive must be able to resist the wear stress continually in the mostly automated processes.
The stamina these fitting components achieve is only possible when all parts are designed correctly. Particularly the maintenance-requiring, media-contacting parts, such as the sleeve and disc, but also the fitting and drive shafts, which alternate continually in operation must be designed particularly wear- and torsion-resistant.
Reliable and efficient
The centric shut-off flaps of the Z 011-A series are one great example for successful long-term runners. They are used in rotating packing systems in the high-performance range of up to approx. 6000 bags/h (depending on number of filling pieces).
The light-weight interim flaps with aluminium housings and double-acting pneumatic drive of the EB-SYD series implement the required quick opening and closing times of this application and are reliable and efficient even in permanent operation. There are adequate materials available for many different bulk goods types – including powders, fine- and coarse-grained, badly flowing products and even mixtures with fine or coarse particles, granulates and crystals – reaching from corrosion-resistant, highly alloyed stainless steels, to highly abrasion-resilient or FDA-approved elastomers, to anti-static coatings.
Please continue with part 2 of ”True Marathon Runners”.
