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News Release from: BestPump | Subject: Automated butter supply
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 October 2007
Butter handling machine takes the
biscuit!
BestPump of Glasgow recently designed, supplied, installed and commissioned an automated butter block handling system for Fox's Biscuits in Batley, Yorkshire - part of the Northern Food Group
The project accommodates 25kg butter blocks at 5 degrees centigrade to be loaded onto a conveyor, and has a capacity to carry thirteen blocks (325kg) From the conveyor the blocks are loaded into a chute feeding the auger chamber of the butter handling machine, manufactured by a BestPump partner company, Polar Process of Ontario, Canada
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Polar Machine is powered by a 7.5kilowatt geared motor drive.
The chute and auger chamber when loaded accept a further four butter blocks giving a fully loaded capacity of seventeen blocks or 425kg of butter.
Within the auger chamber, the twin 9inch polished stainless steel, flighted, augers break down the blocks and convey them forward where the butter is received via a rectangler flanged inlet, into a 4inch, circumferential piston, positive displacement pump.
The pump with an operating pressure of up to 30bar and running at a speed of 56rpm can supply 6,000kg of butter per hour.
The pump is powered by an 11kilowatt geared motor drive.
From the pump, the butter is conveyed via a 4inch jacketed stainless steel pipe system, to five discharge points in the recipe mixing area of the factory, some 150feet away.
Each discharge point has automatic valves, to allow butter to be on tap and accurately weighed for any particular recipe.
This automated butter supply system, eliminates almost completely, the intense manual labour previously required in butter handling within the factory and frees up staff for more important tasks, thus increasing efficiency, productivity and safety in the workplace.
BestPump is a global distributor of food processing pumps and hygienic stainless steel process line machinery.
BestPump specialise in the concept and design stages of new installations as well as providing spares and repairs for existing pumpsets and related equipment.
For further information please contact BestPump in Glasgow.
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