Schugi shows off its flexibility
15 Jan 2000
Developed by Hosokawa Schugi for trouble free size reduction of products containing a high proportion of soft, sticky and fatty substances, the Schugi Flexomill features a unique self-cleaning milling chamber configuration.
With conventional mills, the product will cling to the sides of the chamber. The Flexomill's flexible inner chamber, by contrast, is automatically compressed and flexed by a concentric outer chamber using a vacuum pump. This ensures that the product cannot stick, and instead falls back into the chamber for further milling.
Product is gravity-fed into the generously-sized inlet in lumps which can be 50mm or even larger for processing. The vertical, cylindrical milling chamber made of polyurethane elastomer is equipped with two blade holders each of which holds five pitch-adjustable blades.
The milling action is caused both by the turbulence in the chamber which rotates at a high rate of revolutions per mixture and by the direct impact between the product and the blades. The average particle size at the mill exit can be adjusted by altering the rpm and the distance between blades and wall.
