Capacity : 300kg – 10Tons per hour
Certification: SGS, CE, SONCAP
Supply Ability: 50 sets per month
Delivery period: 10-15 working days
Stainless steel hopper equipped with a manual slide gate valve and a green steel support structure; widely used in processing lines for coarse grains, seeds, and legumes.
Stainless Steel Square Buffer Hopper with Conical Bottom (Intermediate Storage Hopper)
Equipped with a manual slide gate valve and a green powder-coated steel support frame; widely used in processing lines for coarse grains, seeds, and legumes.
I. Structural Components
Hopper Body: 304 stainless steel square-to-conical structure; smooth interior walls prevent material adhesion and facilitate cleaning, ensuring no contamination of grains or seeds.
Support Frame: Load-bearing frame made of powder-coated carbon steel; height is adjustable to match the feed inlet of downstream cleaning equipment.
Bottom Section: Manual slide gate valve; allows for manual adjustment of the opening size to precisely control discharge flow or completely shut off material flow.
II. Core Functions (in Grain Cleaning Production Lines)
Flow Buffering and Balanced Feeding
Receives material from the elevator and absorbs sudden impacts; ensures stable, uniform feeding to downstream air-screen cleaners, gravity destoners, and color sorters, preventing fluctuations that could reduce screening accuracy or cause blockages.
Process Buffering and Temporary Storage
Acts as a buffer station between two main processing machines; temporarily stores material when processing speeds differ between upstream and downstream equipment, eliminating the need for frequent line start-stops. Allows for isolation via the gate valve during brief maintenance of downstream equipment.
Controllable Discharge Rate
The bottom manual gate valve allows for free adjustment of the discharge rate to match the processing capacity of downstream equipment, ensuring stable feeding and optimizing cleaning/impurity removal results.
Dust Containment and Loss Reduction
The enclosed hopper design suppresses dust dispersion, reduces airborne dust in the workshop, and minimizes material loss from spillage, meeting environmental standards for coarse grain processing.
Material Homogenization and Flow Stabilization
Material naturally homogenizes as it accumulates in the hopper, preventing the localized concentration of impurities and ensuring uniform material flow into the next cleaning stage.
III. Common Installation Locations
Elevator discharge outlet → Buffer hopper → Air-screen cleaner / Gravity separator / Color sorter;
Can also serve as a small-scale finished product storage hopper connected to packaging equipment.
IV. Suitable Materials
Processing lines for granular materials such as soybeans, mung beans, kidney beans, sesame seeds, chickpeas, various coarse grains, and vegetable seeds.
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