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Fluidized Fill Shoes |
The Fluidized Fill Shoe system includes a Fluidized Fill Shoe and a control box. The control box is used to control the quality of the gas to the fill shoe, and regulate the gas pressure and gas flow rate to the fill shoe. It includes flowmeters and regulators to enable the control of the fluidized zones of the fill shoe independently.
The Fluidized Fill Shoe helps to evenly dispense the powder into the die cavity.
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Inert gas is dispensed into the powder inside the fill shoe to reduce its flow resistance before it is dropped in the die cavity. A porous cover of the Fluidized Fill Shoe allows the gas to be vented while retaining all particulate material.
Fluidized Fill Shoe systems are available for low tonnage presses, such as PTX M601, M612 and M1204, and Dorst TPA5 and TPA6, as well as medium and large size mechanical and hydraulic presses by Dorst, Gasbarre, Cincinnati and others. Fluidized Fill Shoe systems have also been installed on 500T and 750T presses.
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 MATSYS designs and builds Fluidized Fill Shoe systems to meet the customer’s requirements, including special powders, part shapes or custom press. Examples include design and fabrication of a special insert with fluidizers to match a customer existing fill shoe for a large press, and “fluidizing fingers” for a rotary press.
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 MATSYS designs and builds fluidizers with many different shape and sizes to retrofit an existing fill shoe. This is a low cost solution to get familiar with the technology. Fluidizers are installed inside the existing fill shoe, venting screens are installed at the top of the fill shoe and a control box is used to control the gas supplied to the fluidizer.
MATSYS can install a retro-fit loop on any size or shape filler.
The number of loop geometries and sizes are limitless.
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Fluidized Fill Shoe for Uniform Die Filling (PDF)