Reduce foundry maintenance costs with GK rotary drums.

There is nothing worse than having to refurbish a piece of equipment, especially when it comes to rotary shakeouts. Not only is it costly, but it is a very time consuming project, often shutting down the foundry for days. To make matters worse, existing rotary designs allow material to contact the drum body surface, which means you will eventually have to figure out how to get that large cylinder out and a replacement drum body into your already congested shakeout area.

General Kinematics has taken all these issues into consideration, and has designed the new DUCTA-SERIES™ line of rotary products to address these issues.

About the DUCTA-SERIES Liners

Lowered replacement liner costs. 

 

Anticipated liner replacement cost. With rolled plate for a wear liner rather than cast grid sections, savings are realized without a compromise of anticipated life of approximately 2-3 years.

 

 

Lowered liner installation costs. 

 

Liner is provided in 4 individual quadrant pieces.  Liners are held in place with clamp bars to the skin of the drum (shown below).  Each liner is inserted into the drum, clamped on one end, and drum is rotated 90 degrees for the next liner.  Dangerous installation and expanders are eliminated.  Expected installation requirements are limited to a 2 or 3 man crew with a forklift (and boom) and impact wrench for an expected changeout time of approximately one to two shifts, allowing replacement to take place over a weekend.

Elimination of individual wear plate replacement. 

 

With providing the liner in quadrants, there is no need to replace broken or damaged individual cast liners.  In competitive drums, removal of all plates and replacement is required.  With the General Kinematics Ducta-Series drums, should an area require repair, patch plates are easy to locate and weld in place directly to the liner.

 

 

No shell/skin replacement is required. 

 

By utilizing a lower conveyor for return of the fines rather than transferring between the shell and the liner, costly and timely skin/shell replacement is not required every 4-7 years of competitive products.  With preventative maintenance weekly checking of the clamp bars and fasteners will eliminate sand and metallics from wear to the outer body.

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VIBRA-CLEAN Media drum eliminates rotary headaches.

Customers have told us of the frustration of current media drums: damage to castings, media jammed into casting crevasses, and the inability to run fragile castings. GK has eliminated these issues with their new VIBRA-CLEAN® vibratory media drum.Combining the advantages of natural frequency vibrating design with drum-type material motion, the General Kinematics Media Drum provides a complete, reliable, one-position system for preconditioning castings.Dramatic cost savings are achieved by reducing or even eliminating shot blast cycle times by pre-cleaning castings prior to blasting. Vigorous scouring agitation, together with unique internal construction, assure full media contact on all surfaces of even the most intricate casting shapes. Fragile castings can be handled without danger of breakage, nesting, or surface nicks because rough, rotary tumbling is eliminated.

Because the VIBRA-CLEAN is non-rotating, feed and discharge interfaces are easier to design and operate. Features such as water addition or dust control ducting, in the event of dry processing, are simplified.

 For more information about the VIBRA-CLEAN, please contact the GK Foundry Department, or visit our website at www.generalkinematics.com.