Specialists in Air Pollution Control, Bulk Material Handling, Process Equipment & Controls

B. W. SINCLAIR, INC.

Belt Conveyors

Does this set of requirements sound familiar?

• Need to convey materials of many different lump sizes?

• Need a conveying medium which resists corrosion and abrasion?

• Need to keep annual maintenance costs as low as possible?

• Need to convey material gently so that the particles are not broken?

If this looks like your current Project Worksheet, a SINCLAIR Series 400 Belt Conveyor is the solution.

We maintain an in-house staff of Registered Professional Engineers, Design Engineers and Equipment Designers to translate your requirements into a finished system. We can take complete system responsibility, or furnish your standard designs. Our supply can include:

• Box truss or structural channel frame

• Deck plates and drip pans

• Jig-fit bearing-shaft-pulley assemblies

• Idler and belting selection for your application

• Dust or weather enclosures

• Accessory structures, including walkways, machinery service
  platforms, support bents and towers

• Gravity or screw take-up modules

• Power transmission components

• Custom surface prep and coating

Flexible Side Wall Conveyors

SINCLAIR is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of L-flow and Z-flow High Incline Flexible Side Wall Conveyors. Our Series 600-FSW offers the most efficient configuration to satisfy both conveying and elevating requirements.

Our wide experience in these systems offers you:

• Steep incline capability up to 90 degrees

• Decreased maintenance costs due to fewer power components

• Better use of investment capital because less is spent on drives, structures and transitions

• Maximum employment of site floor space

The SINCLAIR Series 600-FSW normally includes:

• Quality belting with flexible sidewalls and conveying cleats for your specific application

• Heavy jig-built conveyor frames and component mounting brackets

• Dust or weather enclosures

• Machined and balanced hold-down wheel modules

• Manual or gravity belt tensioning systems

• Inlet and discharge chute work

• Support bents and towers

• State-of-the-art belt cleaning devices

• Control instrumentation

• Custom surface prep and coating

Screw Feeders

If your project calls for precise volumetric withdrawal of bulk materials from storage, a SINCLAIR Series 200 Screw Feeder can be the answer.

We specialize in engineered Feeder Systems throughout industry. Variable speed drive modules offer you the ability to "fine tune" the volumetric feed rate to match your process requirements. Variable pitch flighting, tapered internal shaft sleeves, tapered flighting or combinations of the above offer precise "mass flow" emptying of bins and hoppers.

The SINCLAIR Series 200 Feeder offers such design features as:

• Uniform or tapered screw diameter

• Conical shaft sleeves for mass flow bin withdrawal

• 95% flooded inlet sections

• Internal shrouds or shear plates for flow regulation

• Precise feed regulation

• Carbon or stainless steel construction

• Inlet agitators for flow assistance

• Pre-assembly and testing

• Custom Engineering

In this highly critical process area, our experience is your assurance.

Bucket Elevators

SINCLAIR Series 300 Industrial Bucket Elevators comprise one of the cornerstones of our business. We provide high-lift elevators with buckets up to 48" wide. Our standard Engineering designs include:

• Model 100 and 150 Centrifugal Discharge styles with buckets mounted on chain or belt

• Model 700 and 750 Continuous Discharge chain or belt styles, for more gentle product handling

• Model 800 Positive Discharge chain styles for consistent discharge of sluggish and hard-to-handle products

• Model 900 Mill-Duty styles, both chain and belt-mounted, for high-volume, severe service applications

We offer all styles in mild or stainless steels, as well as abrasion-resistant alloys. We also provide various accessory pieces including OSHA-standard caged safety ladders, intermediate rest platforms, machinery service platforms, hoist beam assemblies and lateral bracing.

A SINCLAIR Elevator normally includes:

• Heavy gauge steel casings, seal-welded

• Split removable hoods

• Cam-Lock access doors

• Pillow Block roller head bearings

• Ball bearing screw take-ups (auto counterweights also available)

• Assembly fasteners and gaskets

• Match-marked casings for field re-assembly

Diverters and Roller Gates

SINCLAIR Series 1000 Diverter Gate Valves are available in single blade/two-way configurations, single-offset designs, and double-blade/three-way styles. Our gate valves are guaranteed to mate to our conveying components, offering you a smooth flow of product throughout the plant.

SINCLAIR also offers the unique Series 1000-BV2 Bucket Valve Diverter for those applications where material build-up on the internal walls of the diverter causes actuation problems. The internal bucket-wing blade routes the product positively from leg to leg, and the product never touches the internal walls.

The SINCLAIR Series 1100 Cam-Roller Slide Gate Valve is the premium live-roller supported valve on today’s market. Because the gate blade operates over a live bed of precision rollers rather than through a mechanical slide pathway, most causes of gate jamming are eliminated.

We offer these gates activated by chain or hand wheels, pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders and either rotary or linear electric actuators. Dust enclosures, product return chutes, square-to-round transition spools, safety instrumentation and control enclosures are all available from SINCLAIR.

Hoppers and Bins

SINCLAIR can also furnish our Series 900 Cylindrical or Square Surge Bins and Storage Hoppers as a part of our "sole source" philosophy. Bins and hoppers are available in carbon and stainless steels, as well as abrasion-resistant alloys, and in standard sizes from 1.5 to 300 cubic feet live capacity.

All fabrication is done with heavy steel construction and seal welding is standard. Accessory devices including bin level indicators, feed devices, ladders and platforms, bin vents and flow aids are available. Internal and external surfaces are custom finished to your specifications.

Our years of experience in the design of bulk material handling equipment and conveying systems guarantees you a high quality, low cost solution to intermediate storage problems.

Standard sizes in these hoppers ranges from 2 to 6 foot diameter, with live capacities up to 300 cubic feet. Excellent material flow and withdrawal capabilities are standard with our 60 degree discharge bottoms.

You have a guarantee of compatibility when SINCLAIR furnishes the hoppers along with the in-feed and discharge material handling systems.

Live Bin Bottoms

If you are handling materials which tend to pack, bridge or interlock under pressure, the SINCLAIR Series 100-LBB Live Bin Bottom could be a valuable addition to your material handling system. Typical applications include:

• Wood chip feed bins

• Bark Boiler Feed systems

• Centrifuge Discharge hoppers

• Filter Cake storage bins

• Dewatered sludge facilities

• Contaminated soil remediation systems

The 100-LBB is normally designed to provide either mass-flow or sequential withdrawal from large openings. SINCLAIR can include single or multiple variable speed drive modules in AC, DC or Eddy Current configurations. Heavy duty thrust bearing assemblies and shaft seals are standard. Materials of construction can be carbon, abrasion-resistant or stainless steels.

The discharge of the 100-LBB can be mated to a SINCLAIR conveyor system to transport the metered product throughout the process.