Elscint Vibratory Bowl Feeder for Scoops

Elscint recently manufactured a vibratory bowl feeder for feeding of two types of plastic scoops. The requirement was to feed both the scoops in the same bowl feeder. One of the scoops was having a diameter of 28 ?mm and length of 80 mm while the other had a diameter of 40 mm x 90 mm length. The requirement was to feed the same at a speed of 100 + parts per minute. The bowl was designed in a such a way that almost all of the scoops were used, whatever way they came. For this proper tooling was designed to get them into the correct direction. This ensured that the required speed was achieved.

A step / cascade design bowl was fabricated Bowl for this purpose. In case of scoop feeding, not only is the orientation very critical but the speed or feed rate required to be achieved is also very high. The advantage of this type of bowl is that at the end any required orientation can be provided to the customer. IN this case, the requirement at the end was to have the scoops horizontal with the tail trailing and open side towards the bowl centre. This was achieved in the 800 mm long linear track ahead of the bowl feeder.

Further the customer required a 50 ltr. hopper with a level controller and an enclosure for mounting the vibratory bowl feeder in order to prevent contamination as well as to reduce the noise level.

Elscint’s standard enclosure made of stainless steel square tubes with doors on all sides with sheets was provided. The advantage of this type of enclosure is that it can easily be opened from any side for Maintainance purposes as well for access to the scoops inside the bowl. Model 630 with a bowl diameter of approximately 1000 mm was used for this purpose.

You can watch the big scoop bowl feeder and that of the smaller scoop.