General Kinematics (GK) melting and sprue cleaning solutions automate your melting operations. From scrap cleaning to furnace charging, GK has a solution to improve the safety and productivity of your melt operations.

Cleaning and conveying
Returning clean scrap to the melt deck is important to produce a cleaner pour. To get your scrap back, vibratory conveyors from General Kinematics offer quiet, reliable conveying with low maintenance requirements. On the way, GK’s DUCTA-SPRUE® removes sand through aggressive tumbling action and prepares scrap for remelt.

Building your charge
Proper metallurgy is determined even before you melt. GK’s alloy addition, ladle addition, and charge make up solutions automate this process to provide a consistent charge make up every time.

Heavy-duty Furnace Charging
General Kinematics furnace charge feeders are the most reliable and durable vibratory charge feeders available. Each machine is custom engineered for your specific tonnage and furnace type. Feeders are available in a variety of mobile configurations to best fit your facility and process. Combine this with our charge makeup solutions for the ultimate in melt deck performance.

Vibrating charge feeders
General Kinematics vibrating furnace charge feeders and charge systems give you precise automated batch control, optional scrap drying and other charge enhancement capabilities. Equally important, automated systems help improve worker safety.

Charger nosepiece is designed specifically for your furnace to control fumes and direct the charge into the centre of your furnace. Vibrating furnace charge systems can be motorised to move forward, backward, up, down, or transversely as well as full control with wireless weighing.

Features
The patented charge feeder nosepiece expands to prevent jams, fits tight to the furnace hood to contain fumes and any potential splashback, and directs the charge into the centre of the furnace to reduce furnace damage. Additionally the feeder is fitted with noise reduction vibrating feeder troughs for quiet furnace feeding, is designed for 24/7/365 operation with little maintenance requirements, which reduces your planned downtime, a two-mass, natural frequency charge feeder design requires very little energy to operate, reducing your HP and energy costs, is designed with soft isolation springs that limit transmittal of forces to your furnace deck and with a variable speed material discharge to keep your furnace crucible full as material is demanded.

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