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Corenco - Screw Fed Disintegrators
Corenco’s new screw fed disintegrator addresses customers’ difficulties feeding products into the standard angle disintegrator. Feeding issues generally accompany bulky products that have high adhesion, such as dried fruit, and products that have high buoyancy (high surface area and low bulk density) such as paper, bark, leafy greens, and styrofoam.
An additional obstacle to feeding occurs when the product goes through a washing step prior to milling, creating surface tension.
Corenco replaced random gravity feeding with precise auger feeding, overcoming the second set of obstacles by “force feeding”. Added benefits include a metered feed into the mill, which improves milling efficiency by limiting surging, protecting against overload, and thus providing a more modular, stand alone piece of equipment.
Available in 10, 20, 50 and 75 Horsepower
Screw-fed disintegrators process adhesive or other hard to feed products such as odd-shaped, oblong items, without “bridging.” They do this thanks to the moving screw in the feed chamber, which feeds everything into the grinding chamber without interruption.
Screw-fed disintegrators are:
- Used for materials that are sticky or otherwise difficult for gravity to move through a processing machine
- Designed to handle leafy green veggies, and are also great for things like clumps of ginger, squash, and oversized product
- Primarily used in the fresh juice industry
- These machines work well for many of the applications above, but are generally more substantial, more expensive machines than many of those needs would necessitate. Screw-fed disintegrators are most applicable to hard-to-feed products like leafy greens.
They’re also ideal for metering the feed rate or moving the product into a grinding chamber at a consistent speed. Ginger is an excellent example of a product that works well in screw-fed disintegrators. The primary function of these machines is to overcome bridging as an issue for feeding the machine.