Patented VORTEX® Chamber
In a predominantly "copy-cat" industry, the patented VORTEX® chamber is the key structural design technology that sets it apart from all previous approaches used to design and construct a drum-style brush chipper. The VORTEX® chipper challenges the question of how machines should really cut and throw, while offering many other performance advantages within this unique compartment, which make it all possible.
Go With The Flow
The VORTEX® chamber is an enclosed, semi-cone shaped area that acts as the bellypan where chips are guided and accelerated into the discharge paddles. Unlike conventional drum chambers that tightly wrap the drum, the VORTEX® chamber is open and is progressively tapered wider toward the discharge housing. This allows both gravity and powerful air currents generated by the spinning drum and impeller assembly to create a unrestricted pathway for chips to naturally flow directly toward the discharge paddles. Conventional drum-style chippers require the drum to carry the chips in pockets around to the back of drum where they are then released at the rim-speed of the drum itself. As soon as a chip comes off of the knife on the drum in the VORTEX® chamber, that chip is instantly drawn into the disc-shaped discharge impeller where it can be thrust with the rim-speed of the disc, which is nearly twice the rim-speed of the drum.
The patented VORTEX® chamber
Speak Volumes
Due to the high volume of air generated within the VORTEX® chamber, many added benefits are available to the operator aside from the ability to cut brush consistently and move chips with unparalleled velocity. Plugging is practically impossible. There is no place for the chips to accumulate because the discharge paddles are always throwing faster than the drum knives are chipping, even under a larger load. Plus, the amount of unidirectional airflow forcing material to exit the discharge is tremendous. This airflow also controls dust and "blowback", the chipping residue that is cast back through the feed system onto the infeed pan or ground more commonly observed with traditional drum-style chippers. The VORTEX® chamber also allows for a screen to be placed to size material into a consistent, uniform valued-added product, such as micro-chips to meet customer demands.
The progressively tapered chamber guides chips to the discharge housing
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