Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 22 2019 | Page 44

Auger Screw Spares For All Types Of Machine Trantec are leading suppliers of auger steel. The bar or wire stock must be including the manufacture of custom screw spares to the Solids and Bulk accurately moved as the mandrel rotates bar and wire forms by cold drawing. This Handling industry. From screw feeders to form the correct pitch of the helix. well-established method of manufacture to flexible screw conveyors to filling Trantec modified existing machinery has many advantages and will allow machines, Trantec have supplied an to accomplish this task with accuracy very small quantities of custom wire array of replacement auger screws and consistency being at the forefront shapes to be produced. Easily obtainable and ancillary parts since 1997. Trantec of the process. Stock in-feed can have standard bar can be formed into custom particularly specialise in full flight a significant effect on how the spiral is shapes and sizes before being rolled into augers for Powder Handling Equipment, formed and careful consideration was a helix. manufacturing these screws to very high given to the wire guide method. The precision at sensible prices. angle of application, tension, speed of The key element of Trantec’s application and distance between the manufacture remains their ability Not all screw feeder manufacturers mandrel and the in-feed guide all play a to produce tooling in-house using however use a full flight screw, part in the quality of the spiral produced. the latest CAD/CAM software and with some suppliers opting for the advanced computer guided machine simpler spiral, spring type augers. Spring type Bulk Solids feed screws tools. Custom draw tooling and custom To ensure Trantec cover the full range of come in many shapes and sizes. All too forming mandrels can be manufactured replacement spares, a development often the wire form can be difficult to quickly and cost effectively, allowing program was established to manufacture obtain, especially if only one auger screw small quantity production runs. Larger spring type augers at their Clayton-le- is required. There are many established quantities offer the economies of scale Moors production facility. companies who can manufacture and make the process even easier on whatever wire form is needed but your budget. Augers of this type are usually formed their minimum order quantities can be by winding a wire form onto a mandrel. hundreds of kilos making one-off spirals For further information please visit The wire can be square, round or prohibitively expensive. Trantec have www.trantec.info or call 01282 777566 rectangular and of stainless or carbon added to their development program by 44 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk