Hazardous Drum Filling
Rate: 30 drums per hour
Container: 55 gallon open-mouth drums
Material: All stainless steel construction, including walls and undercarriage
Overview
This custom-made drum filling system was built to automatically fill 55 gallon open-mouth drums with highly combustible powder. At the fill station a robot arm with suction cups shuttles to the drum to remove and hold the lid then shuttles it back. Before filling, a special dust cover lowers over the open-mouth drum to seal it for dust collection during the filling cycle. The drum is rotated for labeling before it enters the first air lock. Once inside, a guillotine door closes to seal it in. The dust collection vents and windows are on the back side of the system. A full cover attached to the fill spout has a port for connecting to a dust collection system.
The fully automatic all-stainless steel system includes;
- A drum rotator at the infeed station
- An air lock prior to the filler
- Lid removal and replacement robot
- Air-operated dust cover over the drum
- An air lock after the filler
- A wash down watering system
- Special baffles and vents
- Explosion proof controls
- All-stainless powered conveyors
- Pneumatic drum positioning devices
- Four air-operated guillotine doors
- Two hinged maintenance doors
- Six plastic see-through windows
Description of Operation
This is custom-made drum filling system built to automatically fill 55 gallon open-mouth drums with highly combustible powder.
- An empty drum is placed on the infeed conveyor
- The drum is rotated for labeling before it enters the first air lock
- A guillotine door opens to allow the drum to convey into the chamber
- Once inside the guillotine door closes and seals the chamber
- At the fill station a robot arm shuttles to the drum to remove and hold the lid
- At it’s return to the home position, the robot signals the filling to begin
- Before filling, a special dust cover lowers over the drum to seal it for dust collection
- After the filling operation the robot shuttles the lid back
- The dust collection vents and windows are on the back side of the system
- A full cover attached to the fill spout has a port for connecting to a dust collection system
Technical Specifications
This is custom-made drum filling system built to automatically fill 55 gallon open-mouth drums with highly combustible powder.
- There is a drum rotator at the entry point for labeling each drum
- An air lock is built prior to entering the filling booth
- An air operated guillotine door is built at the entry and discharge points
- A shuttle device is built above the drum filling station
- A set of vacuum cups hangs from the shuttle device
- A pneumatic drum positioning devices is located at the filling station
- An air operated dust cover is lowered over the open mouth drum
- A dust collection system is built within the booth
- An emergency water wash-down system is built inside the booth
- There are special baffles and vents strategically located on the booth
- All controls are rated for explosion proof classification
- There are a total of four guillotine doors, all air operated
- All the conveyors are powered live roller with explosion proof drives
- Two access doors are provided for maintenance of the equipment
- There are six plastic, see-through windows on the sides and front
- This is an all-stainless steel, one piece system built on a welded superstructure frame
