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WB in top and tails. (Plant).


Watson Backus Machinery Ltd have introduced the only automatic carrot tapper and tailer currently on the market.

The machine is capable of topping and tailing 2800 kilos per hour, depending on the size and shape of the carrots. It is completely stainless steel stainless steel: see steel.
stainless steel

Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat.
, including the control panel, and the top of the machine can be opened by the push of a button. The carrots are transported over a shaker Shaker

Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian sect. Derived from a branch of the radical English Quakers (see Society of Friends), the movement was brought to the U.S.
 plate and diverted to a three row 'step feeder' that walks them up to the tray at the top of the machine in single file. Once on the high speed, continuously circulating tray belt, the carrots are aligned either to the right or left and are topped or tailed accordingly. At a second aligning belt a pre-determined length is cut from the other end of each carrot. Waste product is despatched to one side of the machine and on to further production via a scraper See scraping.  chain conveyor Conveyor

A horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machine for moving or transporting bulk materials, packages, or objects in a path predetermined by the design of the device and having points of loading and discharge fixed or selective.
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Contact: WBML on tel: 01775 760056
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