Keywords and Phrases

ATEX

A special rating when product material is combustible and defined by the customer in rating zones and distances.

Base

Machine base sitting on ground

Bed depth

A term used to define the product material thickness as it moves through a machine like a linear feeder.

Bellows

Special air bellows used on out Vibrecon range with superb vibration suppression.

Bulk Density

Refers to entire volume of occupied powder including voids/air pockets. Measures by total mass of powder divided by apparent volume it occupies. This density can change on how material is packed, settled or compacts.

Classifier

A machine that can have multiple decks to classify material by particle sizes.

Circular

A circular machine opposed to a linear machine shape design.

Deck

A screen will fit into a deck, where the deck has a rim and spout.

Density (True Density)

Refers to intrinsic density of the solid material excluding any voids or air pockets between the solid particles. Calculated by the total mass of the powder divided by its volume.

Discharge

Once screened or transferred product material will flow through an exit discharge spout, normally round. 

Hookscreen

A type of screen design used in Gough linear screens for securing into machine.

Hire

We offer machine for hire.

Hydroscopic

Related to the humidity of a material that can absorb moisture from the air. 

In-Feed

Term used to describe your product material feeding into a machine for the first time.

Jacobs fittings

A particular type of JACOBS fittings used to connect pipework or chutes.

Linear

Linear, meaning a screen or machine design shape defined by a rectangular width and length - as opposed to circular design.

Material

A customers product material that requires sieving/separating or transferring/conveying to another location.

Microns

A unit of measure where for example 1.0mm is 1000microns. So 0.1mm is 100microns and is used for wire mesh aperture sizing.

Motor

A sealed motor, designed with out-of-balance weights to generate vibration.

Out-of-balance

A motor with internal weights, set to different positions to create vibration.

Sieve

A small single motored machine, with one screen vibrating to produce oversize and fine material separation.

Screen

Larger single screen areas than sieves, with two out-of-balance motors for more aggressive vibration.

Sealed motor

Motors are sealed unit with end caps.

Separator

Another term used for separating material into 2 or 3 or 4 fractions.

Spout

Term used, normally round, in which product material flows through. It can be positioned at the exits of the machine.

Swinglink®

A Gough patented name for a type of pendulum bucket elevator.

Support Frame

A fabricated steel support frame used on linear screens, conveyors, linear vibratory feeders etc. can be mobile.

Tramp

Tramp material is waste material to be removed from the good material using sieving or separating techniques.

Tubular (Feeders)

A specific design involving an enclosed vibrating tube to carry product safely and cleanly from one location to another.

Ultrasonics

An additional, optional technique using high-frequency sound waves to generate specific vibration of a mesh screen and can be used to de-blind blocked meshes.

Vibration

A motion generated from an out-of-balance motor or electromagnetic drives. Vibration can also applied in the vertical horizontal planes dependant on machine.

Vibraflo®

A patented single vibrating screen using twin out-of-balance motors. 

Vibrecon®

A patented circular vibrating machine for single or multiple decks with air bellows.