Ploughshare-Mixer-From Applepack
Plough mixer is widely used to mix powder, granule, and small liquid additives in food, chemical, and construction line. It is particularly good at handling food additives, mortar, fertilizing, sludge, plastic, and special building material. The powerful shearing effect makes it high efficiency, and good mixing result.
For main global player in the production of wearables for the automotive industry (brake pads) we built two small ploughshare mixers capable of quickly mixing to the highest possible degree of homogeneity the pre-mixes which are subsequently sent on to the press machines.
Although small in size, the units work double (and even triple) shifts and achieve an excellent particle distribution of all ingredients in the recipe (the mix has to pass various validation steps before it is finally sent on for further processing).
The mixer is made of mild steel, with one round inlet, one inspection door and plough tools. Since a number of ingredients are, by nature, very hard and abrasive, the parts most severi subjected to wear (mixing tools) are made in wear-resistant steel, to guarantee the longest possible life cycle. Moreover, to reach the best possible degree of particle distribution in the shortest possible time, a side refiner was added to the mixer configuration.
Ploughshare Mixer with Screw Feeding
Standard Features:
Volume: 100-20000L
Stainless Steel or Carbon Steel
Plough agitator for center discharge
Designed for normal temperature and normal atmospheric pressure.
Feed Nozzle
Dust Nozzle
Manually operated or Pneumatic operated flap valve
Packing Seal
Safety limit switch on inspection door
The plough share mixer is composed of a cylinder body, a rotary spindle, colter group, flying group, support, transmission parts, nozzle, jacket etc.. After starting the motor spindle drive, the Coulter group rotation, the normal direction of sides along the two sides of the counter, through the flying group, is a high-speed. rotating rapidly and effectively break and disperse.
The material is of high-speed flying and dispersed, fell into the bottom of mixer, coulter group provides a composite material mixing force required, be mixed material to do a full range of combined cycle in internal mixer, mixing to quickly reach. The Coulter spindle mixer and knife group is an external fixed bearing seat, and the cylinder body and contact with the hub packing seal, the feed box for machining parts, so as to ensure the sealing performance of the mixer, no leakage, good protection of external bearings.
The bottom of the mixer adopts a large pneumatic open door structure with tight seals, fast discharging speed, clean discharging, and small cleaning strength when replacing equipment. There are two types of spray operation: pneumatic and electric. Pneumatic spray needs an air compressor and sprays evenly. Electric spray is directly injected into the fluid pump, but the spray uniformity is not as good as the pneumatic method. Some mixed occasions need to mix at a certain temperature, which requires the Coulter mixer cylinder being arranged outside the heating jacket.
The mixer required a large number of different in-feed ports and vents, both for gravity fed ingredients and for pumped materials (liquids and solids), twin electro-pneumatic outlets perfectly flush with the mixing drum (no dead zones), side refiners, an extra-large inspection door, a manual sampling port-hole on the mixer front, and an automatic high pressure mixing drum wash down system.
There are two ways of heating: electric heating and heat conducting oil heating: electric heating is convenient, but heating rate is slow; heat conduction oil needs to be equipped with oil pan and oil transmission power and pipeline, with large investment, but the heating speed is fast.
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PLOWSHARE Mixers are the most efficient mixers available in the world and consist of a horizontal cylindrical container with multiple plow shaped shovels mounted on the main shaft. With 15% – 85 % filling of the mixer volume providing multiple batch sizes and increased flexibility in only one machine. The size, number and positioning, geometric shape and peripheral speed of the mixing elements are precisely coordinated to efficiently produce a whirling cross action three-dimensional product movement. The complete Mixing chamber becomes an Active Zone, whereby the entire product is constantly involved in the mixing process eliminating “dead zones” or low-movement zones inside the Mixer guaranteeing fast, precise unpredictable homogenous mixing.
The mixing tools are specially designed to lift the material from the inside wall of the container without smashing the particles against the chamber wall which reduces the risk of product degradation resulting in the ideal Mixer for all products and applications and perfect for Mixes which contain multiple materials of varying bulk densities.