Bulk handling system ups frozen food quality, cuts labor
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ingredients are introduced into a batter mixer. Since these ingredients tend to pack, cake, smear, bridge orcavitate, transfer bins are equipped with Flexi-Finger flow promotion devices that continually agitate the material.Previously, operators manually transferred the dry batter mix from mobile bins into a 5-ft (1.5-m) high hopperusing a stainless steel shovel, requiring them to climb several steps an ergonomically challenging affair thatresulted in the loss of 2.6 lb/h (1.2kg/h) of product per line, equating to $113 (פ90) every 66 hours. The dry batter mix was then gravity fed from the...