DRY MIXING

The chemical powders in dry conditon are weighed and mixed in the dry mixer. The try mixer is packed in air tight bags and stored in necessary.

WET MIXING

The bonding additives are added to the dry mixer in measured quantities and ground to a paste. This paste or wet flex, is transferred to the briquetting press for making briquettes.

CONCENTIRCITY TESTING

The concentricity tester is used to check the concentricity of the flux coating with respoect to the core wire. The tester has a "V" shaped knife edges anvil on the base of a microscope, over which the electrode as kept and rolled. The concentricity values are read through microscope.

SLUG PRESS

In the briquetting press, the freshly mixed, cooling filex is compressed and compacted into briquettes i.e., in a form convenient and ready for loading into the extrusion press.

HIGH SPEED BRUSHING & TIPPING

The main body is of all-welded steel. Since the machines is heavy, it requires no foundation. The main conveyor consists of two narrow rubber belts running on cast ironwheels. Electrodes from the magnetic pull-out belt strike the spring-loaded plate and fall on to the narrow rubber belts. A corrugated rubber belt aligns the electrodes parallely. Two separate lateral aligning belts positions the electrodes before brushing and chambering. Operating speed 100 to 1000 electrodes perminute depending on capacity.

BAKING OVEN

Of robust construction, with a rigid steel shell, the oven consists of a drying chamber, overhead heating elements, blowers for horizontal air circulating and automatic temperature control system. The space between the doubelwalls of the oven is packed with grade insulation material. Thermostats protect the oven against over heating.