Liquid filling machines
They are water filling machines that are used to fill beverages. One of the most significant advantages of this machine is that it disperses the perfect amount of liquid to be filled.
Usage: It is used to fill all sorts of liquids, including water, alcoholic beverages, aerated drinks, sauces, cooking oil, soup, salad dressings, and many more things.
These machines are available with various specializations. They are:
Manual liquid filling machine
Semi-automatic liquid filling machine
Automatic water filling machine
Inline liquid filling machine
Rotary liquid filling machine
Piston liquid filling machine
Powder filling machines
These machines are made using spiral feeding technology that enables proper filling with zero-drip. They are ideal for filling powdered and granulated items, which are both free-flowing and non-free-flowing.
Free-flowing items include granulated sugar and table salt. They are items that cannot retain their shape when external pressure is added. Non-free-flowing items include powdered milk and brown sugar. They are products that can retain their shape even after high compression.
Usage: They are used to fill packets of additives, starch, pesticides. Certain cosmetic products are also packed using this machine. The food, beverage, and chemical industry also uses this machine.
Basics of the Basket Mill
Basket mills feature a rotating basket that uses centrifugal force to accelerate the grinding media, much like an amusement park ride where passengers lean against a wall while the ride rotates at high speeds. Unlike the ride, which merely locks passengers into place, the basket contains a disk installed with pegs to permit grinding.
As illustrated in Figure 1, the top, bottom and sides of the basket are perforated to allow the product to enter. In the center of the basket the grinding disc attaches to a shaft that is centered in the basket drive shaft. This inner shaft is braked to prevent the disc from rotating with the beads and product. The sieve basket rotates around the fixed grinding disc.
The basket is filled about 80 to 85 percent by volume with the grinding beads. When the basket rotates, the centrifugal force compresses the beads against the grinding disc. The shearing forces for dispersion are created between the fixed disc, the moving bead mass and the rotating basket. The blocks mounted to the top and bottom of the basket along with the grinding disc create turbulence for higher shearing force.
In most cases, steel, glass or ceramic beads with a diameter of 1.2 mm for a smaller basket, and 2 mm for a larger basket, are best for coatings dispersions. However, bead size is ultimately determined by the basket’s slot sizes.