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Incline
Screw Conveyors

Mepaco leverages our food industry experience to provide the best incline and contained screw conveyor solution for the application. This equipment is highly customized, with options that solve production goals.

Application Customization

  • Pivoting screw, drop-down conveyor, or rail system design
  • Variable pitch flights
  • Manual or lift-assist safety grating
  • Contoured, solid or domed grated covers
  • Insulation and cladding
  • Thermal screws
  • Bead blast, pickle passivated or electropolished surfaces
  • Gear box mounting styles: Flange mount, shaft mount with torque arm, or chain and sprocket
  • CIP / Sprayballs

Design Features and Customization 

  • Quick release seal
  • Coupled motor drive shaft
  • Load cells

Application Expertise 

  • Co2 Conveyor – Screw incline conveyor design to meter product while reducing product temperature
  • Screw Incline with CIP – Screw incline designed with CIP (clean-in-place) capability and a fixed base with elevated pivot track
  • Thermal Screw – Inclining screw conveyor system with indirect heating of product through thermal screw technology

Metering
Screw Conveyors 

Metering Screws are designed with bins that feed product into the conveying system. Designed as part of a system, these Metering Screws offer surge loading benefits to increase yields for your production goals.

  • Hopper Designs: Clean Sweep, Cross Screw or Center Bottom Screw
  • Variable pitch flights
  • Manual or pneumatically controlled lift-assist safety grating
  • Contoured, solid or domed grated covers
  • Insulation and cladding
  • Thermal screws
  • Bead blast, pickle passivated or electropolished surfaces
  • Gear box mounting styles: Flange mount, shaft mount with torque arm, or chain and sprocket
  • Cut flighting for pre-breaking
  • Heating or chilling jackets
  • CIP / Spray balls

Design Features and Customization

  • Quick release seal
  • Coupled motor drive shaft
  • Load cells

Configurations

Transport
Screw Conveyors

Mepaco’s Transport Horizontal Screw Conveyors offer options and capacities to allow efficient and effective product handling. Screw conveyors are designed for full bulk product containment and aggressive sanitation.

Application Customization

  • Pivoting screw, drop-down conveyor, or rail system design
  • Variable pitch flights
  • Manual or lift-assist safety grating
  • Contoured, solid or domed grated covers
  • Insulation and cladding
  • Thermal screws
  • Bead blast, pickle passivated or electropolished surfaces
  • Gear box mounting styles: Flange mount, shaft mount with torque arm, or chain and sprocket
  • CIP / Sprayballs
  • Reversing horizontal screws

Design Features and Customization

  • Quick release seal
  • Coupled motor drive shaft
  • Load cells
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FAQ – SCREW CONVEYORS

What types of material finishes are available?

We offer No. 4, bead blast, passivated and electropolished finishes.

What do I need to know to specify a screw conveyor system?

Bulk density, surge or instant throughput requirement, infer and discharge elevation

What is the range of screw diameters available?

From 4″ to 20″ diameter

What hopper sizes are available?

Mepaco has made hoppers from 100 lb. to 8000 lb. capacity.

Do you stock tanks?

Gravity fed, cone, or clean sweep hopper with separate agitator.

What hopper styles are available?

We offer fixed leg and portable supports with casters using tubular or angled construction.

What thermal solutions are available?

We offer heating and cooling through jacketed or insulated options.

What safety options are available?

We offer full length safety grating, including hopper.

What drive styles are available?

Flange mount or torque arm, chain and sprocket or discharge driven.

Where are the drives mounted?

At the indeed or at the discharge.

Can you provide a reversing screw?

Yes, we can design a reversing screw depending on the application.

Do you offer self-clearing hopper?

Mepaco’s Clean Sweep Surge Loader offers a solution that mechanically clears food product between batches on surge loading applications.