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.