Three lines of equipment

Three things we do that most suppliers don't

From a car workshop
to a machine builder

Accuracy and perfection run in our blood.

Since 1984 we prepared and serviced rally bikes and cars, and ran them ourselves. A rally is the hardest test of whether a machine is right — it survives the punishment or it doesn't, and it shows you exactly where. That is where our standard was set.

The work began in cars. In 1991 we opened Dazzle Car Care, an automotive repair shop in Bahadurgarh. In 1998 it became A.B. Automech, a Maruti authorised service station, and ran as one until 2012.

In 2013 A.B. Plastech began, and has been in continuous production since. The first product was a set of moulded labyrinth seals for conveyor idler rollers — a small part, held to a close tolerance. Those seals led somewhere we did not expect. Polyamide is hygroscopic: it takes up moisture, so it has to be dried correctly before it is used. Learning to dry one engineering material led to others — and to PET, which cannot simply be dried, because it has to be crystallised first. At the time we knew of no machine built in BHARAT that crystallised PET by infrared. So we designed one.

We did not begin at a drawing board. We went and looked — PlastIndia at Delhi and Gandhinagar, Chinaplas at Shanghai and Guangzhou, Plastivision at Mumbai, PlastAsia at Delhi — to see what already existed. It existed, and it worked, and it was out of reach: landed cost and customs duty put efficient drying technology beyond most Indian processors. That is why this machine was built here rather than bought. Work began in August 2016, and the trials took two and a half years.

Cryst-O-Dry® — our infrared rotary crystalliser and dryer — was launched at IndiaPlast in 2019, at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida.

The range has grown since: Mix-O-Well® mixers, Load-Well™ loaders, Roast-O-Dry™ for the food side, and SpectraCure IR-UV™ — recently ordered by a leading Indian food processor, designed, made to our drawings, and commissioned.

No machine runs forever without attention, and we don't pretend otherwise. What we can control is how much attention it needs, and how easily that attention can be given.

Every machine is designed for manufacture and for assembly from the first drawing — DFM and DFA are not an afterthought. A machine that goes together simply also comes apart simply, which matters on the day something needs attention. Where a part does eventually wear or fail, we specify standard components available locally, not parts that only we can supply — so a buyer is never left waiting on us to keep a machine running.

Safety is a design-stage decision, not an afterthought. Controls, access and guarding are considered from the first drawing, so the machine is straightforward to run and safe to be around. Improvement is a continuous process, and we are always glad to incorporate a buyer's feedback into the next build.

Every agreement we enter is written in plain language, our terms and conditions stated up front rather than buried.

Every machine we sell starts as our own drawing. It is designed at our works in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, BHARAT; its parts and components are made to our drawings by selected vendors; assembly and trials are done in-house. We own the blueprint of every machine we sell — which is why we can service it, defend it, and stand behind it.

We don't ask you to take that on faith. A Cryst-O-Dry® supplied to Nepal in 2020 is still in production. Over the years only consumable parts and a few electrical items have been replaced. Mechanically, the machine is sound.

Even our proportions are held to a standard: the golden ratio has shaped our machine design since the late 1990s — the same discipline is built into our own wordmark.

One of our designs holds a granted Indian patent, currently under restoration.

Crystallisers, mixers
and material loaders

Cryst-O-Dry® crystallises and dries PET. Mix-O-Well® blends raw material without spillage. The Load-Well™ range moves granules and powder by vacuum or by compressed air.

Load-Well™ — moving granules and powder

Three ways to move material into a process, chosen by what the material is and how it has to arrive: a separate vacuum loader for granules, a filtered loader for powder, and a compressed-air venturi loader where a blower is not warranted.

Load-Well™ SVL

Separate vacuum loader

Powder-coated CRC MS receiver, 6 L, ports orientable through 360°, inductive proximity demand switch. 300–400 kg/hr. For plastic granules.

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Load-Well™ PVL

Powder vacuum loader

SS-304, 14 L in a 300 mm body, 51 mm ports. A 500 mm pleated cartridge cleaned by reverse pulse from an accumulator on the machine, so suction does not decay through the shift.

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Load-Well™ AVL

Compressed-air venturi loader

SS-304, 4.4 L receiver, capacitive sensing through the sight glass. Conveys continuously until the material reaches the sensor — no blower, no flap, no timer to set.

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Load-Well™ SVL SS-304

Food-grade stainless loader

SS-304 throughout, 12 L effective, OD 50 mm ports. Level sensed through a polycarbonate sight tube, so nothing sits inside the product path.

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Load-Well™ range at a glance

Not recommended for flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. PVL is additionally unsuitable for carbon black and titanium dioxide.

Mix-O-Well® range at a glance

All sizes 3-phase, 50 Hz. Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials.

The five sizes, to scale

The 300, 800, 1200 and 2000 are one machine in four sizes. The 200 is a different arrangement — smaller, squatter and made to be wheeled to whichever machine is running the job.

Scaled by capacity, not measured. Overall dimensions are confirmed in our written offer.

Mix-O-Well® — blending without spillage

An online mixer that blends raw material homogeneously and removes most of the handling a manual mixing station needs — no floor space for drums, no re-packing between steps, one man instead of two.

Mix-O-Well® 200 L

Mobile, castor-mounted

200 L, 150 L effective. SS-304 hopper, barrel and screw, 0.75 kW. On castors, and the motor and screw lift off for cleaning.

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Mix-O-Well® 2000 L

Fixed-frame installation

2000 L, 1800 L effective. SS-304 hopper, barrel and screw, 5 kW. 1787 mm across, 3122 mm high, ladder built into the frame.

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Lower power consumption per kg of raw material than manual mixing. Not recommended for mixing powder, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials.

®

Infrared rotary
crystalliser and dryer

India's first indigenously developed infrared rotary crystalliser and dryer. Indian Patent 297057. Proven. Installed and running.

Why PET must be crystallised and dried

PET is a highly hygroscopic resin — it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere during transportation and storage. When moisture-laden PET is processed at melt temperatures of 260°C and above, the water hydrolyses the polymer chains, causing loss of intrinsic viscosity, an increase in carboxyl groups, colour change, and irreversible deterioration of the final product.

Post-process and recycled PET present an additional challenge. Unlike virgin PET, which is semi-crystalline, post-consumer and scrap PET is amorphous. Amorphous PET cannot simply be dried: heated through its glass transition temperature of approximately 80°C, amorphous particles soften and agglomerate, forming clumps that choke conventional drying hoppers and disrupt the process.

The correct sequence is therefore crystallise first, then dry. Only crystalline PET can be safely heated to the drying temperature of 160°C and above without agglomeration.

References: Ind. Eng. Chem. Proc. Des. Dev., 1977, 16(3), 341–346 · “Beyond processing methods: the impact of the drying technique on PET performance,” Discover Polymers, 2025, 2:1, Springer.

The conventional approach — and its limitations

The standard industry method uses two separate machines and two separate steps. A crystalliser — a hopper with an agitator — heats amorphous PET through its glass transition to achieve crystallisation, taking approximately one hour. The crystallised material is then transferred to a dryer — hot air, desiccant wheel, compressed air, membrane, or vacuum — and dried at 150–180°C, taking a further four to five hours.

Total processing time before the extruder can run: five to six hours.

Conventional processing times are established industry practice, consistent with A.B. Plastech's own process comparison data.

How Cryst-O-Dry® works

No medium. No waiting.

Cryst-O-Dry® combines crystallisation and drying into a single step, using short-wave infrared radiation in a continuously moving patented rotary drum.

In a conventional dryer, air is the transfer medium: energy must first heat the air, which then heats the surface of the material, which then slowly conducts heat toward the core. This outside-in process is inherently slow. Infrared radiation requires no medium. Short-wave IR penetrates directly into the material and acts at the molecular level, heating from the inside out. The bulk of the granule and any internal moisture are heated simultaneously. The surrounding air stays at ambient temperature, and the temperature gradient between the heated granule interior and the cooler surface drives moisture outward and away.

What takes five to six hours conventionally takes fifteen to twenty-five minutes in Cryst-O-Dry®.

“The delivered energy is applied directly to the material with no other transfer medium … this is the driving force that drives moisture to come out faster than in convection drying.” — Discover Polymers, 2025, 2:1, Springer.

The numbers

The process is continuous, not batch. Material is fed and discharged without stopping, and throughput is set by drum speed and residence time — the figures are in the specification below.

The exothermic advantage

What it costs to run

Crystallising and drying PET bottle flake takes 0.22 kWh per kilogram, and preform grinding 0.12 kWh per kilogram, both within five per cent. Those are the figures to put against your own tariff — we would rather you did that arithmetic than have us quote a rupee figure at a rate you do not pay.

Against a conventional agitator crystalliser followed by a dehumidifying dryer, that is twenty to thirty per cent less energy for the same material. And there is no desiccant to buy, regenerate or replace — which also means the volatiles that post-consumer flake gives off during drying have no desiccant bed to poison.

The infrared lamps are the only consumable. They last 5,000 hours and cost ₹1,500 to ₹2,500 each; the machine carries three zones with three to six lamps in each, set out for the duty. A full set replaced at the end of its life, spread across the material it processed in those 5,000 hours, works out at roughly one to five paise per kilogram. Nothing else on the machine is a scheduled replacement.

They are standard lamps, widely available. You are not tied to us for them.

Getting below 300 ppm

Fifteen to twenty-five minutes brings 5,000–6,000 ppm down to 300–400 ppm. For most PET processing that is the job done.

Hold the discharged material in an insulated buffer hopper for thirty to forty-five minutes and it falls further, on the material's own exothermic heat, with no additional energy at all.

Where the specification calls for under 50 ppm, a dehumidifier placed in conjunction with the machine will reach it. Tell us the number you have to hit and we will tell you what the line needs.

There is no separate crystallising step to arrange first. Flake and preform grinding go in as they are, and come out crystalline and dry.

Cleaning, and keeping dust off the lamps

The heater column and the cooling system pull out on a slide. That opens the drum for cleaning by hand in a short stop, and it restarts immediately afterwards — which is what decides whether a machine gets cleaned at a material change or gets left.

How often depends on the input material and the room it runs in. Washed flake from a good line asks for very little; dusty reground material asks for more.

Dust on the lamps themselves is dealt with differently. A continuous air supply through the heater bank holds a shield in front of the lamps, so PET fines do not settle on them while the machine is running. The lamps stay clean because nothing is allowed to land on them, not because somebody wipes them.

Specification — IRD1500

Throughput against residence time

Residence time is the operator's choice, set on the drive. Run faster for more output; run slower for a drier result. What your material needs depends on its moisture and its form, and that is what a trial settles.

Every figure in that table is inside the heating load. Where your bulk density is not 0.4 or 0.6, multiply the volumetric rate by it — then check the answer against heating load ÷ energy per kilogram, because a dense material can ask for more heat than the lamps can give. The output is the lower of the two, and we would rather you knew that from us than found it out on your floor.

Throughput and energy figures are for PET. Bulk density and the moisture you have to reach decide which line of the table applies — tell us the material and the target and we will quote the rate. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

The patent

Where this page calls the drum patented, that is the grant above. The renewal is under restoration, and we would rather say so here than let you find it somewhere else.

Searchable on the Indian Patent Office public database.

A note on validation

Buyers sometimes ask for validation certificates or third-party test reports before running a trial. The principle of this machine's operation is established science: calibrated, variable infrared heat applied to continuously agitated material produces a repeatable, controlled process. Repeatability is validation.

Buyers who understand PET processing recognise this immediately. For those who need further technical discussion, we are available before the trial, not just after it.

1. McKinney, D.E. et al. Ind. Eng. Chem. Proc. Des. Dev., 1977, 16(3), 341–346. doi.org/10.1021/i260063a017
2. “Beyond processing methods: the impact of the drying technique on PET performance.” Discover Polymers, 2025, 2:1. Springer. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44347-025-00013-9
3. Linseis Messgeräte GmbH. DSC application data — PET thermal analysis. linseis.com/en/applications/polymers/chip-dsc-10-polymers-pet/

Enquire about Cryst-O-Dry®

We welcome serious technical enquiries. Plant visits and trials can be arranged. We follow up three times — after that, the next move is yours. No pressure, just a standing invitation to talk when you are ready. Most buyers find their way back.

A.B. Plastech · Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91 94160 55854 · info@abplastech.co.in

™ SVL

Separate vacuum loader
for granules

6 litre receiver, 300–400 kg/hr, 1 HP regenerative blower. The receiver sits on the machine; the controller sits away from the operator.

Receiver on the machine, controller away from it

A self-contained loader puts the blower on top of the machine hopper. It is cheaper and it works — until you stand next to it for eight hours, or until the motor needs servicing and the whole unit has to come off the hopper.

Load-Well™ SVL separates the two. The receiver sits on the machine hopper. The blower and controller sit where they can be reached without climbing and heard without shouting.

Sensing demand without a moving part

Many loaders sense demand with a mechanical flap: material pushes the flap, the flap trips a switch. It works with clean virgin material. It sticks when there are fines, and it wears where the material rubs.

The SVL uses an inductive proximity sensor with 360° switching indication. Nothing moves and nothing wears, so the switching point does not drift as fines build up.

Nor is there a cam. A conventional loader trips a micro switch off a cam, and a cam has to be reset — repeatedly, and usually by somebody you have to call out. There is nothing here to set.

Two stages of filtration, cleaned by hand

Air leaving the receiver passes a primary screen first — a gasket with SS-304 wire mesh embedded in it — and then, at the blower, a pleated paper cartridge of 195 mm outside diameter and 135 mm high. The mesh sits where the product is; the cartridge sits where the machinery is.

Cleaning is manual, and for granules that is the honest answer: granules do not follow the air into the filter the way a fine material does, so the cartridge does not blind within a shift. Hand cleaning on a sensible interval is enough, and there is no pulse valve or timer to go wrong.

Granules, and nothing else

Load-Well™ SVL is for conveying plastic granules. It is not to be used for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

We would rather print that than have a loader bought for the wrong duty. If your material is not a free-flowing granule, tell us what it is before you order and we will say whether this machine suits it.

Modular, so the receiver comes off

The receiver hopper detaches from the flapper assembly by a tri-clover clamp, available as an option. That is what makes cleaning quick between a colour change or a grade change.

Material reaches the receiver through a 4 m PVC hose and a 750 mm stainless lance, and both the material and suction ports can be set anywhere through 360°, so the loader is positioned to suit the machine rather than the machine to suit the loader.

Upper suction or side suction

The suction can be taken from the top of the lid or from the side of the barrel, and both the material and suction ports can be set anywhere through 360°. Which one suits depends on where the hose can run without being walked into or bent tight against the machine.

The two drawings below are the same 6 litre receiver in those two arrangements.

What is in the panel

Contactor, MCB and overload relay are Schneider. Phase-loss protection is standard. A no-load audio-visual alarm tells the operator the receiver has stopped filling, rather than leaving the machine to run itself dry.

Specification

* Conveying capacity depends on material type, conveying distance and vertical lift. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

SVL SS-304  ·  PVL  ·  AVL

Load-Well™ is a trade mark of A. B. Plastech — application 6999170, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

™ SVL SS-304

Stainless vacuum loader
for food and pharma

SS-304 throughout, 12 litres effective, OD 50 mm ports, regenerative blower on a 1.5 kW motor. The level sensor sits outside the sight tube, so nothing at all stands in the product path.

Where stainless stops being optional

Coating chips. Mild steel corrodes wherever moisture is allowed to sit. Neither can be shown to an auditor. A machine built for food or pharmaceutical duty therefore has to be stainless from the start, not stainless where it shows.

This loader is SS-304 throughout, clamps included. Where a drawing shows 316 on a clamp, it is because 304 clamps were not to be had when that machine was built and the higher grade went on instead. Either way, nothing in the flow path is below 304.

The parts that touch the product are the receiver, cone and lid, the discharge, the wire mesh, the clamps, the polycarbonate sight tube and the gaskets. The gaskets are food grade. Every one of those is listed in the specification below, because "stainless" on its own is not an answer to anybody who has to sign for it.

The level sensor sits outside the machine

Level is sensed by a cross-beam photo-sensor. Both halves of it are mounted on a half-round bracket on the outside of the sight tube, and the beam crosses the tube through its wall.

So there is nothing inside the product path at all. Nothing for product to lodge behind, nothing to dismantle in order to clean, nothing to recalibrate afterwards. In a food or pharmaceutical vessel that is worth more than it sounds — every mechanism inside a vessel is one more surface somebody has to account for.

No cam, and no service call for it

A conventional loader senses level with a cam-operated micro switch. The cam drifts, the switch stops tripping where it should, and somebody has to come and set it again. Every reset is a service call, and across a machine's life those calls cost more than the switch ever did.

There is no cam here. The beam either reaches the far side of the tube or it does not, and a beam has nothing to drift out of. Nothing is set at commissioning and nothing needs resetting afterwards — maintenance on level sensing is as near to nil as we know how to build.

You can watch it discharge

The sight tube is not decoration. The operator sees material actually leaving the receiver, which means a starved line or an empty hopper announces itself, instead of being worked out after the machine has already run dry.

It is polycarbonate rather than glass, and that is deliberate. Polycarbonate is effectively unbreakable and takes the temperatures involved without complaint — and it keeps glass out of a plant where glass is usually controlled or banned outright. Soap and water is all it needs to stay clear.

Two stages of filtration, in two places

Stage one is a fabricated wire mesh in the receiver, keeping product out of the air line. It lifts out for washing.

Stage two is a pleated paper cartridge at the blower, 195 mm outside diameter and 135 mm high, protecting the blower itself.

Two stages in two places, rather than one filter asked to do both jobs: the mesh sits where the product is, the cartridge sits where the machinery is.

Fifty millimetres at both ports

Both the material inlet and the suction port are OD 50 mm, and the regenerative blower runs on a 1.5 kW motor. Conveying capacity is 300–400 kg/hr.

The port size and the motor are specified for the duty rather than for the figure — the material, the length of the hose run, the lift, and the hours the machine will be asked to work. Tell us those four things and we will tell you honestly whether this is the machine for the job.

Ordered to food-grade specification

Where a conforming build is required, the gaskets, the surface finish, the hoses and the clamps are all supplied to food-grade specification, with certificates to match.

Tell us what your auditor asks for and it will be on the machine, documented rather than asserted.

Where it sits

Both ports can be set anywhere through 360°, so the hoses run where the plant allows rather than where the loader dictates. Four metre hoses and a 750 mm lance are supplied with the machine. The receiver mounts on the machine hopper or directly on the machine and feeds just in time, with no intermediate vessel holding product while it waits.

The receiver sits on the machine. The blower and the controller sit away from it, where they can be reached without climbing and heard without shouting.

What it is not for

Not recommended for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

* Conveying capacity depends on material type, conveying distance and vertical lift. Not recommended for flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

SVL  ·  PVL  ·  AVL

Load-Well™ is a trade mark of A. B. Plastech — application 6999170, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

™ PVL

Powder vacuum loader
that cleans its own filter

SS-304, 14 litre receiver in a 300 mm body, 500 mm pleated cartridge cleaned by reverse pulse from an accumulator on the machine. 51 mm at both ports.

Powder does not behave like granule

A granule is heavy enough to fall out of the air stream on its own. Powder is not. It follows the air all the way to the filter and packs into the pleats, and once it has, suction falls away. The loader takes a little longer to fill, then a little longer again, and by the end of the shift it cannot keep up with the machine it is feeding.

Everything about this loader is built around that one problem.

The filter cleans itself, between loads

A compressed-air accumulator and solenoid valve are mounted on the machine. Between loading cycles the valve fires a pulse of air backwards through the cartridge, and the cake of powder that has built up on the outside is knocked off. It falls into the cone and goes to the process with the rest of the material.

Nothing is opened to do it. No vessel is unclamped, no dust is released into the room, and nothing is thrown away — the powder that comes off the filter is product, and it ends up where it was going anyway.

The cycle is timed by the control rather than triggered by somebody noticing a problem. That is the real benefit: the conveying rate at the end of a shift is the rate it started with, instead of a rate that quietly decays until the machine starves and someone strips the filter down.

A paddle, not a beam

Level is sensed by a rotary paddle level switch. Powder coats a lens within hours and an optical sensor then reads full when the vessel is empty. It does not stop a paddle turning.

Choosing the sensor to suit the material is the difference between a level signal the operator trusts and one he learns to work around.

Opens without tools

The lid is clamped, not bolted. It releases by hand and the 500 mm cartridge lifts straight out for washing or exchange — which matters on a machine that runs powder, because the cartridge is the one part that will be handled routinely for the life of the loader.

Body and wetted parts are SS-304, so what comes out can be washed and put back rather than replaced.

Sized to sit on the machine

The body is 300 mm in diameter, the cone falls 175 mm to a 95.6 mm discharge, and both the material and suction connections are 51 mm. It mounts over the machine hopper and discharges by gravity.

What it is not for

Not recommended for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Conveying capacity depends on material type, bulk density, conveying distance and vertical lift. Not recommended for flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

SVL  ·  SVL SS-304  ·  AVL

Load-Well™ is a trade mark of A. B. Plastech — application 6999170, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

™ AVL

Air venturi loader,
no motor at all

SS-304, 4.4 litre receiver, capacitive sensing through the sight glass. Compressed air does the work, so there is no blower, no flap and no batch to meter.

The first loader we designed

The AVL is where the Load-Well™ range started. Everything we have learned about moving material since — how a receiver should come apart, where a sensor belongs, what an operator should never have to adjust — was learned on this machine first.

We still build it, because for a certain kind of duty nothing else is as simple.

It conveys in one run, not in batches

A conventional loader works to a timer. The sensor calls for material, a delay runs, the blower starts and conveys for a preset time — fifteen or twenty seconds — and in that window the receiver fills to its own volume. The blower stops, the flap drops, the charge falls through by gravity, and after another delay the whole thing repeats. Filling a hopper takes many of those cycles, and the conveying time is a number somebody chose.

The AVL conveys in one continuous run for as long as compressed air is available. Material flows until the sensor sees it, and a short top-up time then runs on so the receiver is left full rather than merely satisfied. There is no flap, no gravity dump and no charge to meter.

That removes three things at once: the flap that can stick, the repeated free fall that breaks granules, and the conveying dose that has to be re-timed every time the material, the distance or the lift changes. The AVL's timer tops the receiver up. It does not decide how much material you get — the sensor does.

Level sensed through the glass

A capacitive sensor reads the material through the sight glass. Nothing sits inside the flow path, so there is nothing for material to lodge behind and nothing to clean around — and the operator can see the level the sensor is reading.

What the program does

The loader runs on level first and time second. Four states, and no operator input in any of them:

Receiver full. The sensor reads material, the air valve stays shut and the machine uses nothing.

Level drops. The valve opens and material conveys. It keeps conveying past the moment the sensor is covered, for the set top-up time, so the receiver ends the run full.

Full again. The valve closes.

Nothing arrives. If the sensor is still reading empty when that time is up, the valve closes and the buzzer sounds. The bin is empty, the wand has surfaced, or the line is blocked — and somebody is told about it in seconds.

That last state is the one worth having. A loader running to a plain timer will convey air quite happily and starve the machine while it does, and the first anyone knows about it is short mouldings.

Air you can specify — which is why it suits pharma

A blower loader draws its conveying air from the room. Whatever is in the plant atmosphere — dust, moisture, oil mist drifting off a neighbouring machine — travels through the material on its way to the filter. You can filter what comes out. You cannot specify what went in.

A venturi loader conveys on the plant's compressed air, and compressed air is a supply that can be treated: coalescing filtration, drying, activated carbon, a sterile final filter. Its purity can be specified against a standard — ISO 8573-1 — and certified. That is a conversation you can have with an auditor. Room air is not.

This only holds if the air is actually treated. A venturi fed from an untreated shop line is worse than a blower, because compressor oil and water go straight into the product. Ask us about the air train and we will tell you what it needs.

Why compressed air suits small demand and nothing else

A compressor returns roughly one unit of useful pneumatic work for every seven or eight units of electricity it consumes. Moving a kilogram of granule on compressed air therefore costs several times what the same kilogram costs on an electric blower. That is thermodynamics, and no supplier can argue with it.

But a venturi only spends while it is conveying. A machine that fills for a few seconds every few minutes has a very low duty cycle, and a high cost per kilogram multiplied by a small number of kilograms is a small number — while the blower you did not buy costs nothing to wire, nothing to service and nothing to house.

So the crossover is real and it is about hours, not kilograms. Below a certain daily demand this is the cheaper machine to own. Above it, a blower loader wins easily, and we will tell you so rather than let you find out.

Modular, because it has to be cleaned

Two tri-clover clamps, and each has a job. The first drops the receiver off the machine. The second releases the sight glass so it comes out on its own.

That means the whole flow path opens by hand, in seconds, with nothing to unbolt — which is what makes a colour change or a material change quick rather than a job somebody postpones. Wetted parts are SS-304 throughout.

Two arrangements, and built to the duty

The exhaust can be taken through a cartridge filter mounted above the receiver, or fitted for a filter bag, depending on the material and the room it runs in.

The receiver is not fixed at 4.4 litres either. Vessel volume, port sizes, the mounting and the height are set out for the machine being fed — the figures below are our standard build, not a limit.

Beyond that, we design to the requirement rather than from a catalogue. Tell us the material, the throughput, the lift and the run, and the machine is set out for that duty.

Specification

Conveying capacity depends on material, bulk density, air pressure at the jet, conveying distance and lift. Tell us those and we will quote the rate for your duty. Not recommended for flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials.

SVL  ·  SVL SS-304  ·  PVL

Load-Well™ is a trade mark of A. B. Plastech — application 6999170, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

® 200 L

Vertical screw mixer
on castors

200 litres, 150 effective. Hopper, barrel and screw in SS-304, driven by a 0.75 kW motor. The motor and screw lift off for cleaning.

What the screw actually does

A screw and barrel are mounted vertically through the centre of the hopper. The screw draws material up from the bottom and throws it out at the top, where it forms a vortex; the dispersed material falls back down the outside of the barrel under gravity and is drawn up again.

Ten to fifteen minutes of that circulation and the batch is homogeneous. There is no tumbling drum, no ribbon and no paddle sweeping the wall — one screw, turning clockwise seen from above, doing the same thing to every kilogram in the vessel.

Why the blend decides the part

Polymer, masterbatch and regrind that are dosed separately have to be brought to a uniform mix before they reach the screw of the moulding machine or extruder. If they are not, plasticisation is uneven, and that shows up in the finished part as colour variation and inconsistent properties.

Mixing is the cheapest place in the whole process to fix that, and the easiest place to get it wrong by hand.

Mix at the machine, not in a corner of the works

Hand mixing is six separate acts of handling: move the material to a mixing area, unpack and tip it into a tub, mix it, repack it, move it to the line, and tip it into the reservoir. Every one of those is a chance to spill material, to get the ratio wrong, or to let something foreign into the batch.

Put the mixer where the machine is and three of those six disappear. It runs online with an extruder or moulding machine through the outlet port, and it takes the place of the reservoir rather than being an extra station in the works. It is on castors, so it goes to whichever machine is running the job.

It also accepts material while it is mixing, so filling and blending are not two jobs done one after the other.

The motor and screw come off

The motor and the screw are detachable. The barrel and hopper can then be reached properly, which is the difference between a mixer that is actually cleaned at a colour change and one that gets a wipe and a hopeful look.

Hopper, barrel and screw are SS-304 with a 4 mm screw flight. Everything outside the material path is mild steel — the cost goes where it touches the polymer.

It will not start with the window open

A proximity switch watches the cleaning window. While the window is open the motor will not start.

Cleaning a mixer means putting a hand where the screw is, and the only guard worth having is one that makes the machine incapable of running rather than one that asks the operator to be careful. There is nothing to remember, nothing to switch off first, and nothing an operator in a hurry can defeat by habit.

What it is not for

Not recommended for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

300 L  ·  800 L  ·  1200 L  ·  2000 L

Mix-O-Well® is a registered trade mark of A. B. Plastech — 4367092, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

® 2000 L

Vertical screw mixer
sized for a line

2000 litres, 1800 effective. Hopper, barrel and screw in SS-304, driven by a 5 kW motor. 1787 mm across, 3122 mm high, with ladder access.

What the screw actually does

A screw and barrel are mounted vertically through the centre of the hopper. The screw draws material up from the bottom and throws it out at the top, where it forms a vortex; the dispersed material falls back down the outside of the barrel under gravity and is drawn up again.

Ten to fifteen minutes of that circulation and the batch is homogeneous — the same principle at eighteen hundred litres as at one hundred and fifty, because the screw treats every kilogram in the vessel the same way.

Why the blend decides the part

Polymer, masterbatch and regrind that are dosed separately have to be brought to a uniform mix before they reach the screw of the moulding machine or extruder. If they are not, plasticisation is uneven, and that shows up in the finished part as colour variation and inconsistent properties.

At this size the batch is feeding a line rather than a machine, so a poor mix is not one bad shot — it is a shift of them.

Part of the plant, not a trolley

At two thousand litres the machine is set out where it will stay: 1787 mm across, 3122 mm to the top, standing on its own legged frame with the discharge at 758 to 815 mm so a container or a conveying point sits underneath it.

It accepts material while it is mixing, so charging and blending are not sequential, and the batch is ready when the line asks for it rather than an hour later.

Reaching the top, and looking inside

A ladder is built into the frame, so the top of the vessel and the charging opening are reached without bringing steps to the machine. An inspection door in the side lets the level and the state of the mix be seen without opening the top.

Hopper, barrel and screw are SS-304 with a 4 mm screw flight. Everything outside the material path is mild steel.

It will not start with the window open

A proximity switch watches the cleaning window. While the window is open the motor will not start.

Cleaning a mixer means putting a hand where the screw is, and the only guard worth having is one that makes the machine incapable of running rather than one that asks the operator to be careful. There is nothing to remember, nothing to switch off first, and nothing an operator in a hurry can defeat by habit.

What it is not for

Not recommended for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

200 L  ·  300 L  ·  800 L  ·  1200 L

Mix-O-Well® is a registered trade mark of A. B. Plastech — 4367092, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

® 300 L

Vertical screw mixer
300 litres

300 litres. Hopper, barrel and screw in SS-304, driven by a 0.75 kW motor through a direct-coupled reducer. Interlocked cleaning window.

What the screw actually does

A screw and barrel are mounted vertically through the centre of the hopper. The screw draws material up from the bottom and throws it out at the top, where it forms a vortex; the dispersed material falls back down the outside of the barrel under gravity and is drawn up again.

Ten to fifteen minutes of that circulation and the batch is homogeneous. There is no tumbling drum, no ribbon and no paddle sweeping the wall — one screw, turning clockwise seen from above, doing the same thing to every kilogram in the vessel.

Why the blend decides the part

Polymer, masterbatch and regrind that are dosed separately have to be brought to a uniform mix before they reach the screw of the moulding machine or extruder. If they are not, plasticisation is uneven, and that shows up in the finished part as colour variation and inconsistent properties.

Mixing is the cheapest place in the whole process to fix that, and the easiest place to get it wrong by hand.

Mix at the machine, not in a corner of the works

Hand mixing is six separate acts of handling: move the material to a mixing area, unpack and tip it into a tub, mix it, repack it, move it to the line, and tip it into the reservoir. Every one of those is a chance to spill material, to get the ratio wrong, or to let something foreign into the batch.

Put the mixer where the machine is and three of those six disappear. It runs online with an extruder or moulding machine through the outlet port, and it takes the place of the reservoir rather than being an extra station in the works.

It also accepts material while it is mixing, so filling and blending are not two jobs done one after the other.

The drive

A 0.75 kW three-phase motor drives the screw through an ALM 63 reducer at ratio 7, coupled directly to the screw shaft. No belts to tension and nothing to slip.

Hopper, barrel and screw are SS-304. Everything outside the material path is mild steel — the cost goes where it touches the polymer.

It will not start with the window open

A proximity switch watches the cleaning window. While the window is open the motor will not start.

Cleaning a mixer means putting a hand where the screw is, and the only guard worth having is one that makes the machine incapable of running rather than one that asks the operator to be careful. There is nothing to remember, nothing to switch off first, and nothing an operator in a hurry can defeat by habit.

Built to the installation

At three hundred litres the machine is set out for the place it will stand and the line it will feed. Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are settled when the order is placed rather than taken from a catalogue.

Tell us the material, the batch you need and the machine it feeds, and we will set it out for that duty.

What it is not for

Not recommended for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are specified at the time of offer. Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

200 L  ·  800 L  ·  1200 L  ·  2000 L

Mix-O-Well® is a registered trade mark of A. B. Plastech — 4367092, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

® 800 L

Vertical screw mixer
800 litres

800 litres. Hopper, barrel and screw in SS-304, driven by a 1.5 kW motor through a belt drive. Interlocked cleaning window.

What the screw actually does

A screw and barrel are mounted vertically through the centre of the hopper. The screw draws material up from the bottom and throws it out at the top, where it forms a vortex; the dispersed material falls back down the outside of the barrel under gravity and is drawn up again.

Ten to fifteen minutes of that circulation and the batch is homogeneous. There is no tumbling drum, no ribbon and no paddle sweeping the wall — one screw, turning clockwise seen from above, doing the same thing to every kilogram in the vessel.

Why the blend decides the part

Polymer, masterbatch and regrind that are dosed separately have to be brought to a uniform mix before they reach the screw of the moulding machine or extruder. If they are not, plasticisation is uneven, and that shows up in the finished part as colour variation and inconsistent properties.

Mixing is the cheapest place in the whole process to fix that, and the easiest place to get it wrong by hand.

Mix at the machine, not in a corner of the works

Hand mixing is six separate acts of handling: move the material to a mixing area, unpack and tip it into a tub, mix it, repack it, move it to the line, and tip it into the reservoir. Every one of those is a chance to spill material, to get the ratio wrong, or to let something foreign into the batch.

Put the mixer where the machine is and three of those six disappear. It runs online with an extruder or moulding machine through the outlet port, and it takes the place of the reservoir rather than being an extra station in the works.

It also accepts material while it is mixing, so filling and blending are not two jobs done one after the other.

The drive

A 1.5 kW three-phase motor drives the screw through a belt and pulleys rather than a direct-coupled reducer. The belt gives a ratio that can be changed, and a path that will slip rather than load the screw if the vessel is charged badly.

Hopper, barrel and screw are SS-304. Everything outside the material path is mild steel — the cost goes where it touches the polymer.

It will not start with the window open

A proximity switch watches the cleaning window. While the window is open the motor will not start.

Cleaning a mixer means putting a hand where the screw is, and the only guard worth having is one that makes the machine incapable of running rather than one that asks the operator to be careful. There is nothing to remember, nothing to switch off first, and nothing an operator in a hurry can defeat by habit.

Built to the installation

At eight hundred litres the machine is set out for the place it will stand and the line it will feed. Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are settled when the order is placed rather than taken from a catalogue.

Tell us the material, the batch you need and the machine it feeds, and we will set it out for that duty.

What it is not for

Not recommended for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are specified at the time of offer. Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

200 L  ·  300 L  ·  1200 L  ·  2000 L

Mix-O-Well® is a registered trade mark of A. B. Plastech — 4367092, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

® 1200 L

Vertical screw mixer
1200 litres

1200 litres. Hopper, barrel and screw in SS-304, driven by a 4 kW motor. Interlocked cleaning window.

What the screw actually does

A screw and barrel are mounted vertically through the centre of the hopper. The screw draws material up from the bottom and throws it out at the top, where it forms a vortex; the dispersed material falls back down the outside of the barrel under gravity and is drawn up again.

Ten to fifteen minutes of that circulation and the batch is homogeneous. There is no tumbling drum, no ribbon and no paddle sweeping the wall — one screw, turning clockwise seen from above, doing the same thing to every kilogram in the vessel.

Why the blend decides the part

Polymer, masterbatch and regrind that are dosed separately have to be brought to a uniform mix before they reach the screw of the moulding machine or extruder. If they are not, plasticisation is uneven, and that shows up in the finished part as colour variation and inconsistent properties.

Mixing is the cheapest place in the whole process to fix that, and the easiest place to get it wrong by hand.

Mix at the machine, not in a corner of the works

Hand mixing is six separate acts of handling: move the material to a mixing area, unpack and tip it into a tub, mix it, repack it, move it to the line, and tip it into the reservoir. Every one of those is a chance to spill material, to get the ratio wrong, or to let something foreign into the batch.

Put the mixer where the machine is and three of those six disappear. It runs online with an extruder or moulding machine through the outlet port, and it takes the place of the reservoir rather than being an extra station in the works.

It also accepts material while it is mixing, so filling and blending are not two jobs done one after the other.

The drive

A 4 kW three-phase motor drives the screw. At this size the drive is set out for the duty the machine is ordered for.

Hopper, barrel and screw are SS-304. Everything outside the material path is mild steel — the cost goes where it touches the polymer.

It will not start with the window open

A proximity switch watches the cleaning window. While the window is open the motor will not start.

Cleaning a mixer means putting a hand where the screw is, and the only guard worth having is one that makes the machine incapable of running rather than one that asks the operator to be careful. There is nothing to remember, nothing to switch off first, and nothing an operator in a hurry can defeat by habit.

Built to the installation

At twelve hundred litres the machine is set out for the place it will stand and the line it will feed. Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are settled when the order is placed rather than taken from a catalogue.

Tell us the material, the batch you need and the machine it feeds, and we will set it out for that duty.

What it is not for

Not recommended for powders, nor for flammable or explosive materials, nor for liquids or semi-liquids.

Specification

Mounting, access and the discharge arrangement are specified at the time of offer. Not recommended for powders, flammable, explosive, liquid or semi-liquid materials. All specifications are subject to change without notice to improve reliability, function or design.

200 L  ·  300 L  ·  800 L  ·  2000 L

Mix-O-Well® is a registered trade mark of A. B. Plastech — 4367092, Class 7.

Tell us the material and the throughput

Tell us what the material is, how much of it has to move per hour and what machine it feeds, and we will tell you which loader fits — including when the answer is a different model from this one.

A. B. Plastech  ·  Modern Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh, Haryana
+91-94160-55854  ·  info@abplastech.co.in

Rotary processing
for nuts, seeds and spices

One rotary drum machine, in two configurations. Roast-O-Dry™ heats by shortwave infrared. SpectraCure IR-UV^™ adds a UV-C stage alongside it.

Both machines turn the material continuously, so every particle is presented to the field over and over rather than sitting in one position. Drum, drive, control, instrumentation and guarding are identical. The difference between them is the UV-C stage. Drum internal geometry is specified for the material — food and polymer do not tumble the same way.

™

Infrared rotary
roaster and dryer

Continuous rotary processing for nuts, seeds, spices and grain. Shortwave infrared heating, first-in first-out flow, no chemicals and no water.

Why infrared rather than hot air

A conventional roaster or dryer works by convection. A burner or heater raises the temperature of a large volume of air, a fan moves that air through the product, and the air gives up its heat on the way past. The air is the carrier, and the carrier has to be heated first.

Infrared is radiant. Energy travels from the emitter to the material directly. There is no medium in between, and four things follow.

Roast-O-Dry™ — 1000 mm drum

For a processor running several products in a shift, the last of those is often worth more than the energy saving.

Shortwave, not medium or long

The emitters are shortwave. Shortwave infrared penetrates further into the material than medium or long wave, so the heat is developed within the piece rather than only at its surface. That is what allows the drum to run without scorching the outside to dry the inside.

Why a rotary drum

A flat bed or belt carries the product in a static layer. The surface facing the heaters takes the energy; the layer underneath takes what reaches it. Even at low bed depths the top scorches before the bottom is done, which is why belt roasters run long and slow.

A drum turns the material continuously. Every particle is lifted, carried and dropped, so each one is presented to the radiant field over and over rather than sitting in one position for the whole pass.

• Continuous first-in first-out flow — no batch sits longer than another, and nothing carries over
• The whole charge is presented to the field, not only the top layer
• The heated length is wrapped into a drum, so the machine occupies a fraction of the floor a belt of equivalent dwell time would need

Construction

• Rotary drum, continuous first-in first-out flow
• Shortwave infrared heating
• PLC control with recipe storage per product
• Food-grade stainless steel contact surfaces
• Castor mounted with levelling feet — no civil foundation
• Full access for cleaning and product changeover
• No chemicals, no fumigants, no water
• 415 V, three phase, 50 Hz

Sizes

Capacity is not a function of drum volume. It is governed by the internal geometry, which is specified for the material — a larger drum carries a deeper charge and needs proportionally more heat, which is why the load does not scale with size.

Specifications are varied to suit the application.

Throughput

Throughput is quoted against your material, not as a single figure. It depends on bulk density, initial moisture and the dwell time the product needs — and those three vary more between products than the machine does.

Tell us the material, the moisture you start at and the moisture you need, and we will size the machine to it.

Nothing passes a failed heater

The last of those matters more than it appears. A heater that has failed is obvious. One still drawing power but down to three-quarters of its rated output is not — and the product that comes out is under-processed in a way nobody sees until it is packed.

Trials are run on your own machine

We do not keep a demonstration machine. Every machine is built against an order. When yours is complete and before it leaves our works, we run your material through it, to your parameters, and you take the product away for your own testing. What you assess is the machine you are buying — not a demonstration unit that differs from it.

™

Infrared and UV-C
in one rotary drum

The Roast-O-Dry™ drum with a UV-C stage added alongside the infrared. The two stages run continuously and in synchronisation. No chemicals, no fumigants and no water.

Why a drum rather than a flat bed

This is the whole argument for the machine, and it is a matter of geometry rather than of biology.

UV-C travels in straight lines and does not turn corners. On a flat bed conveyor the product lies still: the surface facing the lamps is exposed, and whatever is turned away from them, or shaded by the piece beside it, is not. Nuts, seeds and spices are irregular and opaque, so a static bed shades itself. Treating the other side means a second pass, a turning device, or a longer machine.

A drum turns the material continuously. Every particle is lifted, carried and dropped, so each surface comes round to face the field instead of only the layer on top being exposed.

This describes exposure, which is mechanical and can be observed. What that exposure achieves in your product is a separate question, and it is dealt with below.

Construction

• Combined shortwave infrared and UV-C in one machine — continuous and synchronised
• Rotary drum, first-in first-out
• PLC control with recipe storage per product
• Interlocked guarding — lamps cut when a door is opened
• Food-grade stainless steel contact surfaces
• Castor mounted with levelling feet — no civil foundation
• No chemicals, no fumigants, no water
• 415 V, three phase, 50 Hz

Sizes

Specifications are varied to suit the application.

Nothing passes a failed lamp

The last of those matters more than it appears. A lamp that has broken is obvious. One still running but down to three-quarters of its rated output is not — and that is the failure a processor cannot see.

Whose job the validation is

We do not publish log-reduction figures, shelf-life claims or microbial data for this machine.

Published figures for UV-C almost all come from juice, liquids or flat surfaces — optically simple targets. Nuts, seeds and spices are none of those. They are dry, opaque and irregular, and the result depends on the product, the load depth, the moisture and the starting condition. A figure measured on somebody else's material tells you nothing about yours.

Process validation belongs to the food business operator, under his own HACCP plan. Our part is to supply the machine, its parameters and its records so that validation can be carried out against something solid.

A supplier who quotes you a log reduction has measured it on his product, not yours.

Trials are run on your own machine

We do not keep a demonstration machine. Every machine is built against an order. When yours is complete and before it leaves our works, we run your material through it, to your parameters, and you take the product away for your own laboratory testing. What you validate is the machine you are buying — not a demonstration unit that differs from it in size or configuration.

The process is yours to validate. The machine, its parameters and its records are ours to supply.

Labyrinth seals for
idler rollers

Moulded polyamide seal sets for conveyor belt idler rollers. Four-piece sets for bearings 6204, 6205, 6206 and 6305, in PA6 and PA66. In continuous production since 2013.

Excluding contamination without touching anything

A labyrinth seal works by geometry rather than contact. The path between the rotating and stationary members is long and folded, and rotation flings incoming particles outward before they can travel inward. Nothing rubs. That gives four advantages over a contact lip seal:

Four moulded pieces per roller end

The set assembles into the roller end in this order, working inward from the outside face:

A set is four moulded pieces: rain cap, fix seal, rotary seal and back seal. The metal cap and the bearing are not included.

How the set assembles

Sized to the bearing

Seal sets are sized to the bearing fitted in the roller. The seal's outside diameter and spindle bore match the bearing's outside diameter and bore.

Roller shell diameter and spindle size vary between manufacturers. Send a roller drawing or a sample end assembly with your enquiry and we will confirm the correct set.

PA6 or PA66, specified per order

Where the application is uncertain, PA6 is the safe default. PA66 is chosen when temperature or long-term dimensional stability governs.

Priced per set

A set is the four moulded pieces for one roller end — rain cap, fix seal, rotary seal and back seal. A complete roller takes two sets, one at each end.

Metal caps and bearings are not supplied.

What to send us

• Bearing size — 6204, 6205, 6206 or 6305
• Material grade — PA6 or PA66
• Quantity, in sets
• Roller manufacturer, or a drawing reference

Intellectual property portfolio

Filings made in our own name over the past decade, with the current status of each stated plainly.

Patent

Trade marks

Mark	Application no.	Class	Status
®	4095892	11	Registered
®	4367092	7	Registered
™ (device mark)	6999169	7	Applied — under examination
™ (device mark)	6999170	7	Applied — under examination
™ (device mark)	7200782	7	Applied — under examination
™ (device mark)	7200783	11	Applied — under examination

A mark under application carries ™. A registered mark carries ®. We do not use ® on a mark until it is registered.

Registered designs

These were applied for pre-emptively, to stop anyone else registering the appearance of the machine while it was still new. Publication has since made that impossible for anybody: a design that has been disclosed is no longer new, so it can no longer be validly registered by us or by anyone else. The registrations had done the job they were filed for, so we let the initial ten-year term run out in 2026 rather than extend it by five. They stay listed here because a portfolio that shows only what we kept is not a portfolio. And a design registration protects the appearance of an article, not the way it works — the drum and the method are the subject of the patent above.

Why we publish this

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