Case Study: Vibratory Feeder and Model “SI” Weigh Belt

Customer: MeMeMe a division of Marcy’s located in Canada
Marcy Mihalcheon founded MeMeMe Inc. in 1999, inspired to start a company with a difference. Excellence, originality, value and integrity are the cornerstones of MeMeMe Inc. And these qualities inform every aspect of the company.

MeMeMe manufactures a line of Gourmet Croutons which they sell under the name of Marcy’s as well as under private label to a well know restaurant chain.

Requirement:
Material: pre-baked bread cubes, Feeder: vibratory pre-feeder and Model SI Scale Under Feed Rate: 250-1,000 pph

Marcy’s approached our local representative and asked if there was a way to ac­curately weigh and control the feed rate of uncooked croutons going into a tumbler for applying cooking oil to couton surface. A crouton it is diced bread cubes and as you can imagine dice bread cubes are not the most free flowing material. They have a very low bulk density, highly compressible and interlock very easily. The biggest problem was controlling the flow of croutons onto the weigh belt.

Solution:
After a series of test in our lab it was determined that we could use a specially designed hopper that would allow the material to flow onto a vibratory feeder. The vibratory feeder than fed the material onto a Thayer Model “SI” Weigh Belt. We used a Se­ries 5200 instrument to monitor and control the flow of material from the vibratory feeder to match the required set point. All the components were supplied mounted to a portable stand.

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