Matcon Ltd.

Matcon (r & D) Limited

Matcom Limited

I.s.l.

Ivan Semenenko

Glenn Selch

Peter Wright

Apparatus for operating a closure for an aperture of a material storage container has a device to regulate the position of the closure relative to the aperture, so that an annular gap through which material is discharged is adjustable to prevent crushing of material which might be &ldquo;bridged&rdquo; in the gap.

Valve for the flow control of a fluid comprising solid particles

The invention relates to apparatus (,) for handling flow of particulate material from one location such as a first station such as a filling head (,) attached to an IBC (,) and a chamber (,) which is in association with the filling head (,) by being slidably mounted round an outlet (,) thereof, the chamber (,) having an orifice (,) through which the another station such as an IBC (,) and the one station (,) are operatively connected to provide a transfer system for the material (,). The chamber (,) has a device (,) which is operable to remove a closure element (,) of the IBC (,). The chamber (,) also has means (,) to extract material from the chamber (,) so that the exterior of the filling head (,) and IBC (,) remains in use free of any potentially contaminating material, such as specks of material.

Apparatus and system for handling material

An apparatus for handling flowable material, particularly particulate material, which is held in a discharge container such as an IBC having an opening normally covered by a transport cap, comprises a device which is adapted to engage and remove the transport cap and a device to cover at least a rim of the cap during such removal. The problem of contamination is overcome using the apparatus which is in the form of an annular metal (in the embodiment) cowl which has two peripheral spaced apart upstanding walls, the inner wall rising from an internal base in the embodiment and from which also rises the engaging and removing device, which in the embodiment shown comprises a pneumatic piston and cylinder arrangement. The piston carries an extractor in the form of an annular disc or spider having a depending peripheral wall which carries an inflatable ring or tire. The external surface of the inner wall carries at its rim a lip seal which is mounted over an inflatable ring. The outer wall is higher than the inner wall, and carries an annular seal too, which extends over the lip seal.

Material handling apparatus

Apparatus for discharging flowable material having a closure and an

An outlet closure element in the embodiment is a metal or other material, e.g., plastic, plate which is circular in plan, formed in one piece and which has a substantially central frusto-conical upwardly directly (as considered in use) inset or profile. The periphery of the rim element has a plurality of projecting interengaging portions, in the embodiment four, equiangularly spaced, bayonet shaped locators or slots for releasable interengaging cooperation with members in the form of four bayonet kind of lugs located on the periphery of the outlet of the container.

Clamping device and container having a closure device secured in

Material handling apparatus shown is a pallet made in one piece from plastic material, having a surface in the form of a ring for supporting a container (not shown), the pallet is arranged in use to provide for discharge of material from a container of flowable (particulate) material, and for stacking and nesting with another similar pallet. The ring is a clamp ring which receives a similar ring of a container which rings can be clamped together by a suitable device to provide a unitary arrangement so that the pallet, or base, and the container can be filled and transported in one location, and discharged at a discharge station. The pallet thus includes the discharge means comprising a conical discharge outlet with a cone valve which can be operated with total containment at a discharge station by use of suitable valves.

Material handling apparatus having nestable pallets

There is provided apparatus for transferring material from one container to another, comprising an extensible conduit, a mechanism to extend the conduit, and respective mechanism to open and close an inlet and outlet of the conduit, the arrangement being such that in use the conduit is extended for transfer of material, and the inlet and outlet are opened sequentially to pass material to the conduit from the owe container and then from the conduit to another container.

Material transfer apparatus with extensible conduit

The invention relates to apparatus comprising a container, such as a silo or hopper for storing and distributing flowable material, to receptacle such as an I.B.C. via an outlet, there being a device adapted for removing and replacing a closure of the receptacle, particularly on passage of material into the receptacle.

Apparatus for transferring flowable material to a receptacle and system

An intermediate bulk container (I.B.C.) system for handling a flowable material such as a pharmaceutical powder comprises, a discharge station, a transportable station for holding and transporting the powder, and a seal arrangement of the two stations, the seal arrangement being such that seals thereof cooperate one with the other and with the stations, whereby exposure of external surfaces of the system to the powder is obviated during discharge at the discharge station and during transport, so that no powder can escape from the interior to the exterior in use.

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Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom

Ivan Semenenko