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Ingredient blending goes in house

Retrofit with blender and flexible screw conveyor adds in-house blending to packaging of cosmetic powder. New-found flexibility satisfies customer requirements.

liquid metering. A liquid metering pump and bulk solids feeder meter glitter and fragrance oil into the blender.
liquid metering. A liquid metering pump and bulk solids feeder meter glitter and fragrance oil into the blender.

Previously, raw talc was shipped directly from the mine to a contract manufacturer where it was blended with glitter and fragrance, loaded into bulk bags, and shipped. Once at Delagar, the pre-blended material was discharged by a bulk bag unloader into a 15 ft long flexible screw conveyor that fed a packaging line.

By adding only a mixer and a second flexible screw conveyor to the system, Delagar gained the ability to blend Spring Fresh ingredients in house. Both of the new components were supplied by Flexicon.

Raw talc now arrives at the plant in 2,000 lb bulk bags, the straps of which are attached to a bag-lifting frame that is forklifted into cradle cups atop the 15 ft telescoping posts of the original Flexicon Model BFF Bulk Bag Unloader.

The operator pulls the bag spout through an iris flow-control valve positioned at the top of a hopper intake chute and then closes the valve. This allows the spout drawstring to be untied and the valve opened slowly, avoiding uncontrolled bursts of material into the hopper and dust into the plant environment. Spring-loaded Pop-Top™ bag extension devices on each of the frame posts stretch the bag upward into a cone shape as it loses weight to promote discharge of material through the spout. Additionally, Flow-Flexer® bag activators raise and lower opposite bottom edges of the bag into a steep “V” shape to loosen compacted talc and promote total discharge through the spout.

A new 10 ft long, 4.5 in. dia flexible screw conveyor, also from Flexicon, moves talc from the unloader to the new 4 cu ft horizontal paddle blender.

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