We often get requests for various coatings or types of paint. Generally they’re to prevent equipment from rusting, or just to add the company color to their equipment: from orange to bright purple to our own Uras Techno blue.

However, occasionally the best coating is no coating at all! Sometimes the reason is as simple as the customer’s material is sharp, and there’s a fear of chipping off the paint. Even with a strong coating, this is possible. In other situations, the material’s purity is of the utmost concern. Anything that mixes with the material, even bits of coating that’s measurable in micrometers, can completely contaminate a product.

This is the case with this feeder, made recently for a client. The machine is entirely uncoated, with shot blast finish and a stainless steel trough. The client used it for feeding titanium sponge at around 20 tons per hour.

And the stars of the show, as always, are two 8 pole KEE-85-8 Uras Vibrators, bringing the reliability our customer needed.

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Just look at this majestic creature – it’s a beauty! 2.4 meters by 2.4 meters (8-ish feet), we sold this vibrating feeder to a customer to feed 1,800 tons/hour of coke, limestone, iron ore and other materials in a long string of processes. However, its large size can also be a huge detriment if care isn’t taken in its construction.

❗️ Larger trough means higher chance of bending and breaking, so we strengthened the trough along with the spring mount with a heat process called annealing.

❗️Larger machine can mean larger vibrations being sent directly to your poor factory floor. That’s why it’s suspended by vibration-proof springs to prevent vibrations from traveling to the floor.

❗️Receiving such a large amount of material in a short amount of time can damage the tray, so special ceramic lining (19mm thickness) is set to absorb the impact.

Is bigger better?  Sometimes?  But bigger equipment can definitely come with problems that might not come around in smaller models.  Luckily the engineers at UTC can identify potential issues like this, and everything is set and ready to go before shipping.

We made this beast of a vibrating screen for a client that needed to sieve iron oxide and lime powder, later used in a desulfurization process.

The problem that our client came across in the past is these particular materials can be very, very adhesive and stick to the equipment. In situations like this, applying Linatex, a natural rubber material, to the output chute and under the screen can help smooth out the sieving process!

One more sticky situation avoided by the pros at Uras Techno.

Our client needed variable levels of carbon feeding, with access to two different inputs.  The main input was used for direct feeding from large flexible containers, while the smaller port was used for manual input.  The client occasionally needed to feed in separate raw materials by hand from the floor.

Each input came with its own adjustable gate to limit material flow from anywhere between 30mm to 150mm from the bottom of the surface lining.  This allowed them to control the amount of carbon that went on to the next process, to stabilize the material layer thickness and prevent clogging.

Along with this, we installed clear polycarbonate windows near the discharge chute that that allowed them to monitor their product output.

Overall our client was happy with the two gate, two input additions, a simple setup which allowed for a lot of customization on their end.

And of course the stars of the show, two 4-pole KEE-9-4C Uras Motors that added reliability and low-maintenance to the mix.