The Tubefeeder is a patented discharge machine designed for large rectangular or circular flat bottomed stores.
The travelling or sweeping screw auger is protected by a 'tube'. This gives the machine several advantages over a traditional travelling or sweeping open screw. These advantages are mainly that it absorbs far less power and therefore has a greatly increased service life.
Advantages
- Energy consumption reduced by more that 70%
- Low wear on components - long design life.
- No axial forces - closed force system between auger and tube.
- Tube reverses according to direction - no jamming onto floor.
- Even feeding because material passes through slots in tube over entire length.
- Mass Flow achieved - 'first in - first out'.
- Material head load eliminated due to tube 'floating' in stored material
