With the ability to count and dispense standard and micro pellets one by one, the new TrueFeed Micro Feeder from Conair offers exceptional dosing precision for special production and batching needs.
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Conair offers pellet-by-pellet dosing for production and batching
These may range from small injection moulded parts to laboratory or filament extruders, to dosing and blending ultra-low doses of highly concentrated additives.
Standard or micro pellets are captured on the feeder’s proprietary dosing wheel, where they are optically counted using a light signal and dispensed into hoppers, feed throats, or mixers, with single-pellet accuracy.
TrueFeed Micro Feeders are equipped with eight-inch multi-function touchscreen HMI controls with graphical interfaces that make dosing and stroing simple. Just one control can operate one or two feeders to meet a variety of needs. Two Micro Feeders can work together, or one Micro Feeder can be paired with a larger, standard TrueFeed feeder.
Product Manager Alan Landers said: “Processors can use it to feed moulding applications with very small shot sizes. They can feed small-scale extruders used in laboratories, or in 3D filament or pharmaceutical production. The Micro Feeder also fits batching applications where pellet dosage rates are lower than those that can be accurately weighed and dispensed by existing TrueFeed products. For example, processors can use it to blend highly concentrated additives into their own material blends instead of purchasing custom compounded materials.”
TrueFeed Micro Feeders feature 3D-printed metal-powder construction and an extremely compact design. Standard models are equipped with a clear, top-mounted material hopper, suited for hand feeding, but may be equipped with a mini. Micro Feeders may also be configured and ordered with customised, 3D-printed base dimensions to fit with other production equipment.
