1. Dry product feed and material dosing
Before filling, it is necessary to dose or weigh the required quantity of dry product for each unit pack.
There are three possible ways:
volumetric dosing ;
weight dosing ;
counting.
Beforehand, however, the dosing systems must be supplied with dry products.
1.1 Feeding dry products to dosing systems
Gravity systems
Free-flowing products (such as coffee, sugar, salt, rice) are fed to the filling machine by gravity flow, with the storage silo located above the filling hopper of the packaging machine.
Flow rate is controlled by pouring angle, outlet orifice diameter, product flow characteristics and the height of the product in the tank, which creates a...
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