Bag discharger

Flexicon (Europe) has introduced to its permanent portfolio of bulk bag dischargers a dedicated option for processors or movers of bulk solids who receive raw material in flat bottomed, single trip, bulk bags.

The system comprises a receiving hopper with a centrally mounted, pyramid shaped cutter, designed to make the process of raw material discharge, simple and cost effective.

Using a fork lift truck or cruciform attached to an electric hoist, an operator positions the bag on the discharge frame above the pyramid shaped cutter. As it is lowered to sit on a dust confining, thick rubber membrane on all four sides of the hopper, the four-bladed cutter simultaneously splits the bag, bottom dead centre, enabling material to be gravity fed to the hopper via a 35mm square mesh to filter any loose paper or foreign bodies.