Gross Bagger
An auger filler was recently supplied to Diabe Mushrooms in South Australia for accurately bagging chaff used in their mushroom growing operation. Mushroom spores are added to the chaff mix before the auger filler discharges the product into 300mm diameter by 1100mm long plastic bags.
To assist with manually placing the plastic bags onto the auger filler’s chute, Accuweigh’s Port Adelaide branch supplied a transvector to slightly inflate the bags making the operator’s bag placement task much easier. From the auger filler, the plastic bags of chaff are tied off and then hung in a high humidity growing shed.
Two heavy duty load cells are connected to the filling chute of the auger filler with a Rinstrum R5100 batching controller regulating the bag filling operation. The 5100 has internal product allocations for storing up to 99 product and bag sizes used in the auger filler; including fast feed, slow feed and in-flight weight settings.
A major operator benefit of the 5100 is that products stored in memory can be named and selected using alpha-numeric terms rather than simple numeric numbers only; in the 5100 - CHAF30 would be chaff in a 30kg bag rather than 01 for chaff in a 10kg bag... 07 for maize in a 20kg bag, etc as used in more basic batching controllers.