Bowl Feeders

Where to Start?

Send us some details of your parts, this could be either a 2D drawing a 3D Model or physical part samples. Tell us how many parts you would like out of the bowl in parts per minute (PPM) and send us details of how you would like the parts orientated as they leave the system.

This will allow us to give you a budget quotation and from there we can agree on a design to suit your project. This is provided in the form of a 3D Model free of charge showing the actual dimensions of our system, once confirmed a more accurate quotation can be provided with any additional options factored in.

What are the options?

We offer a variety of options with our bowl units.

The biggest driving factor is what you the customer require.

To start with we select the drive unit base and top, this is always led by the size of the part and any special material requirements.

There are 3 main sizes of bowl drive unit these are commonly know as:

250
400
600/630

There are smaller or larger sizes available although we find these three to be the main sizes generally used. All drive units are available with either 'half wave' or 'full wave' coils although as standard both 250/400 units have full wave coils and the 600/630 units have half wave coils, it is very rare that this changes. The frequency effects how 'smooth' or 'coarse' the feed is.

The next main piece of the puzzle is the bowl top itself these need to be selected in harmony with the drive unit.

The most common type is cast aluminium and these are available in a variety of sizes and dimensions to suit the parts that are being fed. They come in two main types, 'centre mounted' and 'radially mounted' and we are able to select differing track widths and incline angles depending on the project requirement's.

The other two main types of bowl top are Cylindrical and Conical they are exclusively stainless steel and are also available in various size configurations. These would be selected where a more specialised approach is required for example if the bowl is for food or pharmaceutical use. This type of approach is far more labour intensive as the bowl top needs to be fabricated to suit the requirements from a basic base unit.

Depending on the type of bowl/drive unit combination we will be able to provide a full 3D CAD model of the unit and an estimated outfeed height.

We also offer a variety of coatings which are used primarily on cast aluminium bowl tops, the most common of these is spray polyurethane in either a 1mm or 2mm thickness. Various other coatings are available and are application dependent.