WO2012117411A1

WO2012117411A1 - Automatic handling and transferring system for various powdery materials

Info

Publication number: WO2012117411A1
Application number: PCT/IN2011/000265
Authority: WO
Inventors: Albert A. Miranda; Albert Joel Miranda
Original assignee: Miranda Albert A; Albert Joel Miranda
Priority date: 2011-02-28
Filing date: 2011-04-21
Publication date: 2012-09-07

Abstract

This invention is based upon automatic controlled long distance transfer and handling system for various powdery materials like Flour, Dietary Fiber, Pulverized Sugar, and Salomina thereof by Programmable logic controller. This system can be modified to obtain two or more different material with accurate weigh and afterward pneumatically transfer to long distances 200 or variable Meters to a height over 20 or variable Meters without any interruption. It's is fully automatic, Hygienic, Flour or powdery material spillage and losses are minimum, dust free environment achieved.

Description

TITLE- Automatic handling and transferring system for various powdery materials.

FIELD OF INVENTION

The disclosure made herein relates to automatically fully operated, controlled transferring and handling system of various powder material like flour for long distance, with the minimum loses of flour spillage, dust free environment and a hygienic system which is very easy to clean and maintain. An automatic logic controlled transferring and handling system is much more fast, reliable and independent. It saves manpower and makes it a easy to use an industrial applicable invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Traditionally according to requirement at a same time it's imperative to take two or more then two flour and other powder material supplies with accurate weigh and pneumatically transfer to long distances and heights. To maintain a uniform and high accuracy for transfer and handling to the flour and other powdery material, an automatic logic controlled transferring and handling system can however is much more fast, reliable and independent.

The present novel invention, Powder Handling System is used for various powdery materials like Flour, Dietary Fiber, Pulverized Sugar, Salomina etc. The system can transfer granules like Wheat, Rice, Sugar, and Corn. The invented system can be tailored to take two or more different material, weigh and then pneumatically transfer to long distances and heights also.

There have been a variety of different types of system used for handling and transferring to flour or powder material. For example, reference may be made to the following are- According to US 2009/0117533 Al (patent application)/WO 2006/120660 Al (patent application) Wherein A system for producing a dough starter culture is provided which comprises a plurality of reservoirs pre-loaded with a small amount ("mother level") of a previously obtained starter culture. Into the reservoirs are inoculated the other ingredients required for the preparation of starter culture and the contents are left to ferment for a specified period of time to produce the required starter culture, which is then discharged as required from each reservoir . A "mother level" portion is retained in the reservoirs and is used to produce a next batch of starter culture. The system operates automatically and is programmable so that a first pre-set interval of time which is less then the fermentation time is allowed to elapse from the start of fermentation in a first reservoir before the ingredients are delivered into a succeeding reservoir , and a second pre-set interval of time is allowed to elapse after the starter culture is discharged from the first reservoir before a next batch of the ingredients is delivered into the first reservoir

According to AU 774767 B2 (granted patent)/PCT Patent 2001/030655 wherein The present invention relates to products, methods, apparatus, and the products made there from used for processing and packaging perishable foods and particularly to processed perishable foods that are packaged in plastic food trays that are overlaid with one or more layers of sealable plastic material. The present invention also relates to apparatus for processing and pre-treating perishable foods and associated packaging with gases.

According to United States Patent Application 20050004682 wherein A raw material is stored in a storage container. The stored raw material is physically processed in the storage container to obtain a processed material based on the raw material. Link data is recorded for associating the raw material with the processed material across any transformation between the raw material and the processed material.

As all the above prior arts, the present invention has several advantages and profit on commercial and economical basis. It has shown the efficiency and success on a large scale, hence proved as being applicable on industrial scale. The few advantages over the existing prior arts are following.

1. One PLC controlled Powder Handling System works for several multiple process centers located up to 200 meters.

2. Human handling of flour ends once the Flour bag is loaded on the Bag Tilter. Can use Flour loaded in Silo as well.

3. Powder spillage and losses are minimum due to trolley tilter usage. Almost dust free environment achieved.

4. The entire Powder Handling Sieving, Weighing and Dispensing to Mixers are Fully Automated.

5. Powder Dispensing to multiple process centers achieved through single weighing system.

6. Flour quantity dispensed to each of the demand center is based on the recipe programmed at that process center, thereby Consistent Product Quality achieved.

7. Powder Handling is totally hygienic and easy for daily cleaning.

8. Saving in manpower and improved productivity

9. Very quick and accurate Flour discharge to multiple process centers.

10. The concluded points which make this Flour Handling & Dosing Systems

11. Flour spillage and losses minimum.

12. Dust free environment.

13. Hygienic System easy to clean.

14. Fully automatically operated, controlled transferring and handling system of various powder material for long distance. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING

Figure 1 - P & I Diagram of flour or powdery material handling system.

Flour or powdery materials are drawn from silo directly or from bags (using a pneumatic bag tilter). Flour or powdery material passes through a magnetic grill and then through gyro screen sifter into pneumatic pressure pump mounted on load cell. From pneumatic pump flour is transferred completely using dense phase transfer technology, into hoppers mounted on top of mixers. Flour or powdery material Handling System and Dosing System cater to multiple mixers operating in different recipes.

Accurate dosing records are maintained mixer wise, batch wise and product wise. Flour or powdery material handling system right from Flour receipt in tankers or bags, flour or powdery material sieving, metal detecting and storing flour or powdery material in silos through pneumatic transfer and even flour blending can be supplied along pneumatic weighing and transfer system.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It's very critical and important to weigh and then pneumatically transfer flour and powdery material in appropriate quantity in any of the food processing or chemical industry operations. In case of manual transferring and handling of flour and powdery material it becomes extremely difficult to maintain the consistency of the product. In appropriate weigh and transfer to long distances and heights also. The system uses Bag Tilters. Flour Bags are emptied into a magnetic hopper with horizontal and vertical screw conveyors. If customer is using silo, then flour is drawn from silo directly. Flour is then passed into a fully closed vibratory sieve. The sieve discharges flour into another hopper with horizontal and vertical screw conveyors. Flour is conveyed into a pressure vessel mounted with vibrator and load cell. Flour intake into the pressure vessel is monitored by the PLC controller. Thus pressure vessel is filled with pre-set quantity of Flour. When the any of the process center needs flour, a demand request is made to PLC controller. PLC Controller starts the blowers and pressurizes the flour loaded pressure vessel to convey the Flour pneumatically into the cyclone separator mounted at the demand center.

A PLC controlled and weighed pneumatic conveying system can supply flour to multiple demand centers over 200 Meters to a height over 20 Meters. A large man power is saved with minimum Flour loss and also generates a dust free environment. Accuracy ± of 500 grams over 300 KG discharge is achieved. The pneumatic conveying of Flour is less than one minute. The systems completely automatic and eliminates human error and even human presence.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

Accordingly, in one aspect, this invention is based on handling and transferring system which applicable on various powdery material like Flour, Dietary Fiber, Pulverized Sugar, and Salomina thereof. The system can transfer granules like Wheat, Rice, Sugar and Corn thereof. This system can be modified to obtain two or more different material with accurate weigh and afterward pneumatically transfer to long distances and heights.

The entire process needs lots of manpower. There is loss of flour or powder material as well as dusty environment. For these kind of problem can be solved by PLC (programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller) which controlled and weighed pneumatic conveying system can supply flour and various powder materials to multiple demand centers over 200 or variable Meters to a height over 20 or variable Meters without any interruption.

The main components of this system are following

Bag Tilter: The bag tilter consists of pneumatic cylinders and a SS tray on which flour or other material bags are opened and placed. The operator operates a lever which activates the pneumatic cylinders to Lift and tilt the bag. The bag gets empted in to the Pre sieve hopper. Hopper: The hopper consists of a horizontal and a vertical screw conveyor. The flour bags get emptied in to this hopper on the magnetic grill. The grill attracts any ferrous contamination. The flour is then transferred to the gyro sifter with the horizontal and vertical screw conveyor.

Pressure vessel: The horizontal and vertical screw conveyors are controlled by PLC. The Post Sieve hopper will transfer the material to the weighing and transferring vessel or Pressure vessel.

PLC (Programmable logic controller): The PLC controls the complete system. It has various menus like Run Status, manual / auto operation, System Diagnosis, Data Acquisition, Recipe Management, Calibration, Alarm Management.

Basically Customers can purchase Flour in Tankers and the flour is pneumatically emptied into on top of grain storages. In the other hand Customers who have no facility to get flour or powdery material in tankers will receive flour or powdery material in bags. Using Bag tilters, the bags are emptied and pneumatically supplied into grain storages. Some customer prefers flour or other powdery material storage in bags as an alternative of grain storages.

Flour or other material Bags are emptied into a magnetic hopper with horizontal and vertical screw conveyors. If customer is using grain storage, then flour is drawn from grain storage directly. Flour is then passed into a fully closed vibratory sieve. The sieve discharges flour into another hopper with horizontal and vertical screw conveyors.

Flour or other material is conveyed into a pressure vessel mounted with vibrator and load cell. Flour or other material intake into the pressure vessel is monitored by the PLC controller. Thus pressure vessel is filled with pre-set quantity of Flour or other material. When the any of the process center needs flour or other material a demand request is made to PLC controller. PLC Controller starts the blowers and pressurizes the flour or other material loaded pressure vessel to convey the Flour or other material pneumatically into the cyclone separator mounted at the demand center. The main advantage is that by this system large man power is saved with minimum Flour or other material loss and also generates a dust free environment. Accuracy ± of 500 grams over 300 KG or variable discharge is achieved. The pneumatic conveying of Flour or other material is less than one minute. The systems completely automatic and eliminates human error and even human presence. So the possibilities of error are less.

Claims

1. The handling and transferring system is comprises of Bag Tilter, Hopper, Pressure vessel, PLC (Programmable logic controller).

2. The handling and transferring system as recited in Claim 1 wherein said it can easily handle and transfer powdery materials like Flour, Dietary Fiber, Pulverized Sugar, and Salomina thereof and granules like Wheat, Rice, Sugar, and Corn thereof. This system can be modified to obtain two or more different material with accurate weigh and afterward pneumatically transfer to long distances over 200 Meters (variable) to a height over 20 Meters (variable).

3. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said it can be customized to receive two or more different materials, weigh and then pneumatically transfer.

4. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said by this system can be get highly accurate flour or powdery material for example accuracy ± of 500 grams over 300 KG or variable release is achieved.

5. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said the pneumatic conveying of Flour or other material is less than one minute.

6. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said the system completely automatic and eliminates human blunder and even human attendance. So the possibilities of error are less.

7. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said A PLC controlled and weighed pneumatic conveying system can supply flour to multiple demand centers over 200 Meters to a height over 20 Meters.

8. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said the entire Powder Handling Sieving, Weighing and Dispensing to Mixers are Fully Automated

9. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said it helps to achieve consistent product quantity, hygienic environment and excellent pay back benefits

10. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Flour or powdery material Dispensing to multiple process centers achieved through single weighing system.

11. The handling and transferring system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Flour or powdery material quantity dispensed to each of the demand center is based on the instructions programmed at that process center, thereby reliable Product Quality achieved.