Charles Ross & Son Company
Charles Ross & Son Company (Hauppauge, NY) announced its Double Planetary Mixers, which come in a range of configurations and sizes from ½ pint to 750 gallons and are ideal for mixing thick, sticky or putty-like materials.
The Sanitary Double Planetary Mixer Model DPM-4S and Sanitary Discharge System Model DS-4S are fully customized and engineered for processing of medical-grade silicone formulations in a portable workstation.
Heavy-duty 4-gallon Double Planetary Mixer features:
- Two patented High Viscosity stirrer blades which rotate on their own axes while orbiting mix vessel on common axis with slicing motion that pushes product forward and downward
- Equipped with electromechanical lift to raise/lower vacuum hood
- 50-psig heating/cooling jacket on mix can
- Product contact parts constructed from stainless steel type 316, 150-grit finish and electropolished
- Operated through 7" color touch screen interface
- PLC Recipe Controls that deliver batch-to-batch consistency
Discharge System features:
- Maximizes product yield while simplifying clean-up
- Platen that is lowered hydraulically into mix vessel
- As platen pushes down on batch, product is forced out through valve on side or center bottom of vessel with minimal product left behind
- Change-can design that enables semi-continuous operation
