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Customized Funnel for High-Speed Rotary Auger Filler

November 18th, 2023

Our customized eccentric funnel design, includes a pipe that is offset from the cone, represents a departure from traditional designs. This innovation demonstrates our commitment to exploring new solutions that may offer improved functionality and efficiency. Leveraging 3D printing technology has been a strategic move for us to address challenges and enhance the efficiency of our machines, particularly in the design and manufacturing of funnels. By utilizing this technology, we can experiment with and optimize funnel designs to improve material flows. This optimization contributed to improving the speeds on our rotary auger filler from 10% to 20% of free-flow product. This innovative approach allows us to explore and implement novel designs, which can offer significant advantages over traditional funnel designs.

Our Engineering Manager, Chad Martin explains, 'It’s one of those things that I feel goes unnoticed because you don’t often think about how a funnel can be better until it’s a problem. Whenever customers run something like whole peppercorn or rolled oats through one of our funnels on a rotary auger filler at high speeds, if they get bridging, they have to stop the process entirely or slow the system down so that there aren’t any issues." At All-Fill, we manufacture all our equipment, tooling, and customizations in our machine shop. We are continuing to explore different funnel designs that will increase efficiency for our customers. We design the funnels on a case-by-case basis. As we gather more knowledge on which applications can use the technology, we are continuing to explore different funnel designs. We hope to eventually add it as part of our standard tooling set for products that will benefit from the design.

 

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