Guttridge equipment for Heidi Chocolat.
11 Nov 2011
Bucharest – UK manufacturer of bulk materials handling equipment Guttridge Ltd has recently supplied conveying machinery to handle a duty of 160kg/hr of nuts and 560kg/hr of chocolate at Heidi Chocolat of Romania.
The Augaflo 150 (with a water jacket) is a special purpose cross feed Archimedean screw design for feeding bulk materials to auger filling machines. Its tubular screw construction made it particularly suitable for the application.
Conveying chocolate in the production process can prove difficult, as the hydraulic and thermal conditions have to be determined to successfully transport the chocolate masses through the system. The most simple and successful conveying method is to apply active heat insulation to the conveyor, said Guttridge.
With the mixed nuts feed being fed into an existing screw feeder, this machine feeds the nuts into the first inlet of the Augaflo 150 which conveys the nuts along the two metre length of the screw.
As the nuts are conveyed they are introduced to the incoming chocolate feed from the second inlet positioned 750mm along the screw casing of the Augaflo 150. Immediately passing through the heated section (water jacket) the action of the screw conveys and simultaneously mixes the two ingredients together before the chocolate and nut mix reaches the final outlet.
