Function Description

Function Description

General

The granulator is designed for grinding plastic waste to

 

for recycling.

H

The plastic waste should be free from metal parts and contamination before granulating.

The granulator is controlled by

start/stop controls on a control

panel.

A

 

G

Standard cutter

C

 

F

 

D

B

E

B

C

Open cutter

The plastics waste is feed into the hopper (A) and falls down into the cutter hous- ing, where rotating knives (B) cut the plastics waste against fixed knives (C) to granulate.

A perforated screen (D) determines the size of the granulate. The screen is located in the lower section of the cutting chamber and can easily be changed to give the desired granulate size.

The granulate passes the screen and falls down through the outlet chute/granule bin

(E) to the outlet pipe (F) for onwards transport.

Granulators with an extraction fan are equipped with an extraction blower (G) which sucks the granulate out to a cyclone (H) for separation of air. On granulator

3 - 2 l Function Description

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