The Pan Feeder Hopper conveniently provides extra parts storage and serves as a bulk delivery system to maintain a proper parts level in a feeder bowl. Innovative systems designers have expanded the Pan Feeder Hopper's uses to include parts delivery to packaging stations and to convey bulk materials. Hoppers serve any application where a storage requirement is coupled with a need to convey a product to processing equipment. Pan Feeder Hopper is a stationary bin with a vibratory pan feeder mounted under the bin's discharge funnel. Parts are gravity fed down the discharge funnel and onto the vibrating pan, where they are conveyed to the pan's discharge.
Parts drop off the end of the pan and into devices such as vibratory feeder bowls.
Pan Feeder Hoppers store parts and deliver them to other devices on demand. During a portion of the electrical cycle, power is applied to the electromagnet. When energized, the electromagnet pulls back and down on the armature which is attached to the pan assembly. When the electromagnet becomes de-energized during the second half of the electrical cycle, the armature and pan are released and spring forward and up. These combined motions cause parts on the pan to move forward until they drop off the pan.