Screw conveyor for cappings (auger system)

01 · THE MISSING LINK

Between the uncapper and whatever comes next

On a line built piece by piece, nearly everyone buys the uncapper and the cappings spinner and leaves the moving to hands. And moving it is the stickiest job in the room: buckets, honey dripping across the floor and one person tied up.

This machine closes that gap. The 670 × 610 mm hopper goes under the uncapper's outlet and the Ø 95 mm auger pushes the cappings to the discharge.

02 · 140 RPM, BUT ADJUSTABLE

And that adjustment is the real handling

Speed is set steplessly up to 140 rpm, and that is the only manoeuvre to learn. Dense cappings from heather or holm oak want a slow advance; light ones from rosemary or orange blossom flow on their own.

The motor is 0.75 kW single-phase at 230 V, an ordinary socket. No three-phase, no installation: it is one of the few honey-house machines of this size that does not complicate the consumer unit.

03 · A FLOAT STARTS AND STOPS IT

So it neither runs empty nor overflows

It carries a float level sensor in the hopper: if there are cappings, the auger turns; if there are none, it stops. It prevents the two things that ruin a conveyor — running dry and overflowing — without anyone having to watch it.

That is what lets you leave it working while you uncap. The automation here is not about speed: it is about not having to be there.

04 · THE OUTLET IS CLAMP, NOT THREAD

And it is worth checking before ordering

The discharge is a TC50 sanitary connection, that is a clamp fitting, not a thread. It does not screw onto an inch-and-a-half or two-inch line without an intermediate piece.

Our range carries clamp collars and hybrid DIN-Clamp valves to make that step. Tell us what you are connecting it to and we will tell you which fitting you need.

05 · DO YOU NEED IT WITH A MIXER?

It depends where each machine sits

If the uncapper discharges straight into the heated mixer, the auger adds nothing: the mixer already blends, tempers and buffers. They are different jobs and they do not overlap.

The auger is needed when there is distance or a level difference between one machine and the other, or when the destination is a press or a spinner somewhere else in the room. Tell us how your line is laid out and we will look at it.

06 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Look first at the distance between your machines.