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Quality Control Stem Tester

Features:

  • International Standard
  • Compact Design
  • Automatic Control

Stem TesterTQM - Total Quality Management is a practice being applied to many products and services, and increasingly applied to the tobacco industry.

With this in mind, Griffin has developed a product testing system for use in a QC environment to determine the quality of stem from the threshing line and for indicating thresher efficiencies in just minutes - in time to make immediate, profit-saving adjustments to maintain stern content specifications. The Griffin Quality Control Stem Tester does the job at the push of a button, safeguards against human errors of judgement and keeps labor costs to a minimum. 80% of the test sample is kept in the profitable 6mm (.23") size or over - with several 3kg (6.6 lb) test runs per hour this feature can really save money.

Method of Operation

The sample is spread on the conveyor and the starter button depressed. The conveyor automatically feeds the thresher at a closely uniform rate.

The thresher basket size and rotor speed combine to reduce the average size of the sample with the minimum quantity of fines. The threshed sample is pneumatically conveyed to the to the separator and is discharged into the separator tower where the lamina is removed from the threshed material and conveyed to a second tangential separator which discharges this lamina to a container. The heavies from the separator are returned via the vibrating conveyor to the thresher for re-threshing. This cycle of operation continues until completion of test, usually 4 to 5 minutes, when the timer automatically opens the gate and discharges stems into container.