This bagging system is used to fill 50 lb. bags with free-flowing corn kernels and grains at 350-400 bags per hour. It is a complete turnkey system designed to run 5-6 days a week for at least 8 hours a day with 3-4 operators.
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- Equipment Descriptions
- Bagging System Photos
- Bagging System Process Description
- Typical Products
- Adding Automation
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Equipment Descriptions
This bagging system consists of the following pieces of equipment.
View of Outdoor Conveying and Grain Cleaning Equipment
Outdoor Conveying and Grain Cleaning Equipment
- Westfield low profile, mobile grain auger with hopper – a truck with bottom dump discharges into hopper
- Westfield grain auger conveyor – conveys and elevates raw grain material and discharges into a vibratory screen grain cleaner
- Vibratory screen grain cleaner – separates and scalps off desired corn kernel product from larger corn pieces, stalks, cobs, dirt, dust, leaf material, etc. (Note: An air knife separator would be required to remove most small rocks and stones. A magnetic separator would be required to remove tramp metal.)
- Westfield grain auger conveyor – conveys and elevates “clean” whole corn kernels through side of packaging facility and discharges into top of surge hopper through lid
Side View of Bagging System
Indoor Bagging System
- 50 Cubic Foot Hopper – Includes lid and high and low fill level sensors (bindicators). Custom engineered to seamlessly and SAFELY support the full weight of product and the bagging scale. Mild steel construction, epoxy coated.
- Model 350 DigitalPLUS Open Mouth Bagging Machine – Digitally controlled gravity flow bagging scale with bulk and dribble flow, IT6000E controller, and pneumatic operated bag clamp via foot pedal (or wand switch). Mild steel construction, epoxy coated. Includes digital scale calibration weight set.
- 14 Foot Long Bag Sewing Conveyor – Includes gear motors and controls, with AC variable speed drive, bag back rail, NEMA4X/IP65 motor controls cabinet and 1hp AC inverter duty motor
- Union Special Bag Sewing Machine – Includes industrial sewing pedestal, sewing head with guillotine style thread cutter, powered bag infeed, motor, and controls
- Bag Kicker Assembly – Attached to the end of the 14 foot long bag closing conveyor. Designed to kick out the bottom of the bag to travel print side up and bottom first.
- 10 Foot Long Bag Incline Conveyor – To elevate bags to 42 inch waist height for palletizing. Includes bag roll over plate.
- 3 Foot Long Gravity Roller Table – Bag accumulation table with stop plate and adjustable height support legs.
- Pneumatic Pallet Loading Station – Automatically adjusts to perfect height to keep the top of the load at a convenient working height to help eliminate bending and improve productivity.
- Automatic Pallet Wrapper – Automatic pallet wrapper with 7″ touch panel and 8 program storage. Up to 300% pre-stretch, auto film cut, and motorized film carriage for film economy. Photocell load-height detection, visual/audio alerts, optional ramp, scale, and pressure plate. Wraps loads up to 4,400 lbs.
Bagging System Photos
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Bagging System Hopper with Open Mouth Bagging Machine
350 DigitalPLUS Open Mouth Bagging Machine
View of Union Special Bag Sewing Machine Conveyor Bag Kicker and Bagging System Controls
Union Special Bag Sewing Machine and Pedestal with Powered Bag Infeed
Bagging System Process Description
A semi-truck or grain truck discharges grain into a low profile auger with hopper. The grain is conveyed and discharged into a vibratory screen that scalps off or sizes the desired corn kernels for bagging. The cleaned kernels are then conveyed into the bagging line, which is located inside of the packaging facility, where they are elevated and discharged into a surge hopper. The surge hopper contains sensors that tell the conveyors to start and stop to refill the hopper up to a set high fill level.
An operator places an empty 50 lb. bag on the spout of the bagging scale and then steps on a pedal to activate the pneumatic dust tight clamp that holds the bag to the spout. The free-flowing corn kernels are fed into the gross weigh bagging scale through a gravity gate feeder. When the target filling weight is reached, the gravity gate closes, the flow of corn stops, and the bag clamp automatically releases the filled bag from the spout.
The operator lowers the filled bag onto the bag closing conveyor. As the conveyor moves the bag toward the bag sewing machine, the bagging operator (or a dedicated sewing operator) guides the bag between the rails, reforms the top of the bag, and feeds into the powered bag infeed. The Union Special Bag Sewing Machine automatically sews the bag shut and the bag closing conveyor moves it into the bag kicker assembly.
A photo eye in the bag kicker activates the pneumatic arm, which kicks the bottom of the bag out. The bag then is conveyed up an incline conveyor and then onto a gravity roller table where it comes to a stop and an operator picks up the bag and places it on a shipping pallet resting on a pneumatic pallet positioner that automatically adjusts its height to eliminate bending.
After stacking a full pallet, an operator with a fork truck retrieves the pallet and transports it to an automated pallet wrapper. He lowers the pallet of bags onto the stretch wrapper and then backs up. He presses a remote control to start the automated pallet wrapper. After wrapping, the fork truck operator transports the wrapped pallet to shipping or storage.
Typical Products
This type of bagging system is designed to package granular and free-flowing products into open mouth bags. Typical products include: Deer Corn, Whole Corn, Cracked Corn, High Moisture Corn, Grains, Seeds, Flour, Rice, Soybeans, Barley, Animal Feed, Bird Seed, Sugar, Salt, Fertilizer, Ice Melting Salt, PVC Resin, Plastic Pellets, Wood Pellets, Activated Carbon, Pea Gravel, Dry Sand, Aggregate (3/4″ down to coarse sand), and more!
For bagging more difficult flowing / sticky products or powders, add a belt feeder, twin auger feeder, or vibratory feeder.
Adding Automation
This type of bagging system can be modified in the future to add industrial automation and robotic integration. This can greatly reduce labor requirements and increase run time efficiency. The most typical automation options are automatic bag placers or palletizers such as gantry-style palletizers or robotic bag palletizers.
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