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New feeders & blenders.


In the past year, Process Control Corp., Atlanta, came out with several enhancements to its line of blenders and feeders. The most recent addition is a regrind feeder feeder

abbreviation for self-feeders. Used in feeding groups of animals at intervals of several days. Feed has to be dry and comminuted so that it will run down the spouts from the hopper into the troughs.
 (photo) for use on Guardian gravimetric gravimetric /grav·i·met·ric/ (grav?i-me´trik) pertaining to measurement by weight; performed by weight, as a gravimetric method of drug assay.

grav·i·met·ric
adj.
1.
 batch blenders. This auger auger (ô`gər): see drill.
auger

Tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace for drilling holes, usually in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and produces extremely clean holes, almost regardless of how large the bit is.
 feeder comes with a range of auger and motor sizes to handle non-free-flowing regrind at any rate required.

There's also an expanded range of gravimetric powder feeders that can be used on a blender or on a standalone stand·a·lone  
adj.
Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. 
 basis. The range now extends from 0.2 to 3000 lb/hr. The stainless-steel units have a hollow auger and DC gear motor with encoder A hardware device or software that assigns a code to represent data. See encode.

1. (algorithm, hardware) encoder - Any program, circuit or algorithm which encodes.

Example usages: "MPEG encoder", "NTSC encoder", "RealAudio encoder".
2.
 for feedback control. The company also introduced a new continuous gravimetric blender for use with the powder feeders.

Process Control also expanded its Guardian batch blender series with a new 2.5-kg model that blends up to six ingredients at up to 750 lb/hr. The single hopper has partitions to separate it into multiple spaces, as well as an integral platform for mounting vacuum loaders. Tel: (770) 449-8810 * PTDirect: 929EV
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Title Annotation:Auxiliaries
Publication:Plastics Technology
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2005
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