Product Categories of Comet Plastic Equipment, LLC

• Blenders (non-intensive)

  GraviMix Micro small weighing and blending system can be installed directly on processing machine. System can blend up to four components, is constructed of stainless steel and equipped with removable hoppers for each component. Auto-Pulse system maintains accuracy of even small quantities. Throughput up to 100 lb/hr.

  GraviMix FMB blending system meters and weighs up to 10 components with throughputs to 6900 lb/hr. Blender constructed of stainless steel and has a sealed mixing chamber. Two economic and networking controls available. With an accuracy of 0.1% or better, blender is self-calibrating and automatically corrects differences from the recipe values. Designed for all processing operations. 

  The 150 and 500 series volumetric blenders precisely meter and mix free-flowing and nonfree-flowing powders, regrinds, liquids and pellets. May be machine-mounted or mounted on a stand for central blending. Throughputs from 150 to 4000 lb/hr. Mix hopper is stainless steel for longer wear and reliability. Metering hopper uses aluminum metering discs for high accuracy. Microprocessor control has 100-recipe storage and performs calculations for calibrations.

  Color Exact 1100, 2000 and 3250 feeders with throughputs to 90,000 g/hr are screw-type feeders for precise at-the-throat metering of color concentrate and regrind. Two versions available: SMD with a stepping motor for injection and DC/D with a d-c drive motor for extrusion. DC/D can be connected to the tachometer of the extruder to obtain synchronous operation between the machine and feeder. Metering screws/sleeves and material hoppers are stainless steel, and units are easily assembled and disassembled using quick release clamps.

  Color Exact PF 1200 feeder uses volumetric principles to meter nonfree-flowing powders and additives and comes in the SMD and DC/D versions with throughputs to 9072 g/hr with standard reduction. Unit equipped with cylindrical-shaped stainless-steel hopper with agitator. Special screw designed with an open spiral and fixed internal core ensures accurate metering. Modularly constructed transition piece enables several types of Color Exacts to be mounted at once.

   

• Conveying Equipment (pneumatic and Mechanical)

  Central vacuum-conveying systems automate conveying of material from storage to processing machine. Filterless vacuum receivers made of stainless steel for longer production life. System enables fines and dust to be removed from material and transported down the vacuum line to the central safety filter. Microprocessor control scans and loads up to 32 vacuum receivers. Systems easily expandable for future integration of scrap granulators, dryers, and blending systems. Modicon or Allen-Bradley controls can be provided to accommodate special requirements.

  New E and EV stainless steel single-phase hopper loaders are designed for gentle transportation of virgin resins, regrinds and additives directly to the process machine. Hinged vacuum head ensures quick cleanup and easy maintenance. All units have a microprocessor control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function and mode including an audible and visual empty alarm. Loaders also have the capability of being converted to central system receivers. EV series is a glass tube loader with an optical sensor and nonreturn flap valve. Throughput of the E series is up to 400 lb/hr.

  S-Series three-phase single hopper loaders fabricated from corrosion-free stainless steel and designed for high-volume conveying up to 1650 lb/hr. Operator panel can be mounted on the receiver or installed on the vacuum unit. M-Series vacuum units are fully portable and feature a powerful three-phase vacuum blower, cartridge filter and exhaust manifold. Units can be connected to as many as three S-Series receivers.

• Dryers for Resins

  HCD honeycomb matrix dehumidifiers use the principle of a "rotating honeycomb." A rotor slowly turns while a cycle of dehumidification, regeneration and cooling is repeated simultaneously. The "wheel" has a series of air passages or channels that form the matrix. Passages inside the wheel are coated with molecular sieves and silica gel that are strongly bonded. When the honeycomb matrix wheel contacts damp air, it soaks up moisture; and when the wheel is heated, it releases the moisture. The system has a drying capacity from 50 to 600 lb/hr.

  CDH hot-air dryers can be used to dry most nonhygroscopic materials and are good for hygroscopic materials as a preheater. Also designed to dry granules directly at the machine to eliminate contamination or reabsorption of moisture when conveying. Constructed of stainless steel, units have only one blower and one heater and can be connected to existing dehumidifying dryers. Size range is 15 to 200 lb/hr.

  Compressed-air resin dryers use pre-dried compressed air from the production facility's air system, which is expanded to atmospheric pressure. Thus the dewpoint drops to a low level and subsequent heating of the process air reduces the relative humidity. Units are energy-efficient and virtually maintenance-free, and are applicable for all resins. Sizes available from one-liter micro-dryers to 152-liter Xpert dryers.

  Sensi-Dry weigh dryer mounts the drying hopper onto load cells that sense the weight of the hopper and its contents. Allen-Bradley controller periodically polls the load cells for weight information, determining the rate at which material is being removed from the drying hopper. This capacity to control feed rate into the hopper virtually eliminates material degradation by ensuring that material does not remain in the hopper for an extended period. Sensi-Dry is also available with Man Machine Interface (MMI). Windows-based 95/98 interface allows operators to set and adjust parameters of both the dryer and conveying system on the spot.

• Feeders

  GraviMix Micro small weighing and blending system can be installed directly on processing machine. System can blend up to four components, is constructed of stainless steel and equipped with removable hoppers for each component. Auto-Pulse system maintains accuracy of even small quantities. Throughput up to 100 lb/hr.

  GraviMix FMB blending system meters and weighs up to 10 components with throughputs to 6900 lb/hr. Blender constructed of stainless steel and has a sealed mixing chamber. Two economic and networking controls available. With an accuracy of 0.1% or better, blender is self-calibrating and automatically corrects differences from the recipe values. Designed for all processing operations. 

  The 150 and 500 series volumetric blenders precisely meter and mix free-flowing and nonfree-flowing powders, regrinds, liquids and pellets. May be machine-mounted or mounted on a stand for central blending. Throughputs from 150 to 4000 lb/hr. Mix hopper is stainless steel for longer wear and reliability. Metering hopper uses aluminum metering discs for high accuracy. Microprocessor control has 100-recipe storage and performs calculations for calibrations.

  Color Exact 1100, 2000 and 3250 feeders with throughputs to 90,000 g/hr are screw-type feeders for precise at-the-throat metering of color concentrate and regrind. Two versions available: SMD with a stepping motor for injection and DC/D with a d-c drive motor for extrusion. DC/D can be connected to the tachometer of the extruder to obtain synchronous operation between the machine and feeder. Metering screws/sleeves and material hoppers are stainless steel, and units are easily assembled and disassembled using quick release clamps.

  Color Exact PF 1200 feeder uses volumetric principles to meter nonfree-flowing powders and additives and comes in the SMD and DC/D versions with throughputs to 9072 g/hr with standard reduction. Unit equipped with cylindrical-shaped stainless-steel hopper with agitator. Special screw designed with an open spiral and fixed internal core ensures accurate metering. Modularly constructed transition piece enables several types of Color Exacts to be mounted at once.

   

• Granulators

  Offers a low-speed (30 rpm), screenless S-cutter granulator from Summit Plastek.

• Hopper Loaders

  Central vacuum-conveying systems automate conveying of material from storage to processing machine. Filterless vacuum receivers made of stainless steel for longer production life. System enables fines and dust to be removed from material and transported down the vacuum line to the central safety filter. Microprocessor control scans and loads up to 32 vacuum receivers. Systems easily expandable for future integration of scrap granulators, dryers, and blending systems. Modicon or Allen-Bradley controls can be provided to accommodate special requirements.

  New E and EV stainless steel single-phase hopper loaders are designed for gentle transportation of virgin resins, regrinds and additives directly to the process machine. Hinged vacuum head ensures quick cleanup and easy maintenance. All units have a microprocessor control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function and mode including an audible and visual empty alarm. Loaders also have the capability of being converted to central system receivers. EV series is a glass tube loader with an optical sensor and nonreturn flap valve. Throughput of the E series is up to 400 lb/hr.

  S-Series three-phase single hopper loaders fabricated from corrosion-free stainless steel and designed for high-volume conveying up to 1650 lb/hr. Operator panel can be mounted on the receiver or installed on the vacuum unit. M-Series vacuum units are fully portable and feature a powerful three-phase vacuum blower, cartridge filter and exhaust manifold. Units can be connected to as many as three S-Series receivers.

• Hoppers, Bins, Tanks

  Central vacuum-conveying systems automate conveying of material from storage to processing machine. Filterless vacuum receivers made of stainless steel for longer production life. System enables fines and dust to be removed from material and transported down the vacuum line to the central safety filter. Microprocessor control scans and loads up to 32 vacuum receivers. Systems easily expandable for future integration of scrap granulators, dryers, and blending systems. Modicon or Allen-Bradley controls can be provided to accommodate special requirements.

  New E and EV stainless steel single-phase hopper loaders are designed for gentle transportation of virgin resins, regrinds and additives directly to the process machine. Hinged vacuum head ensures quick cleanup and easy maintenance. All units have a microprocessor control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function and mode including an audible and visual empty alarm. Loaders also have the capability of being converted to central system receivers. EV series is a glass tube loader with an optical sensor and nonreturn flap valve. Throughput of the E series is up to 400 lb/hr.

  S-Series three-phase single hopper loaders fabricated from corrosion-free stainless steel and designed for high-volume conveying up to 1650 lb/hr. Operator panel can be mounted on the receiver or installed on the vacuum unit. M-Series vacuum units are fully portable and feature a powerful three-phase vacuum blower, cartridge filter and exhaust manifold. Units can be connected to as many as three S-Series receivers.

• Hot-water or Oil-circulating Temperature Controllers

  Company offers its liquid circulating temperature-control products: CW series hot-water temperature controllers (up to 356 F), CO series hot-oil units (to 356 F), CWO series water or oil units (194 F with water, 302 F with oil), and CV series water or oil units (194 F with water, 302 F with oil) that operate in pressure or suction (leak-stop) mode. All have corrosion-free bronze pumps made by Speck in Germany.

• Metal Detectors, Separators

  Central vacuum-conveying systems automate conveying of material from storage to processing machine. Filterless vacuum receivers made of stainless steel for longer production life. System enables fines and dust to be removed from material and transported down the vacuum line to the central safety filter. Microprocessor control scans and loads up to 32 vacuum receivers. Systems easily expandable for future integration of scrap granulators, dryers, and blending systems. Modicon or Allen-Bradley controls can be provided to accommodate special requirements.

  New E and EV stainless steel single-phase hopper loaders are designed for gentle transportation of virgin resins, regrinds and additives directly to the process machine. Hinged vacuum head ensures quick cleanup and easy maintenance. All units have a microprocessor control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function and mode including an audible and visual empty alarm. Loaders also have the capability of being converted to central system receivers. EV series is a glass tube loader with an optical sensor and nonreturn flap valve. Throughput of the E series is up to 400 lb/hr.

  S-Series three-phase single hopper loaders fabricated from corrosion-free stainless steel and designed for high-volume conveying up to 1650 lb/hr. Operator panel can be mounted on the receiver or installed on the vacuum unit. M-Series vacuum units are fully portable and feature a powerful three-phase vacuum blower, cartridge filter and exhaust manifold. Units can be connected to as many as three S-Series receivers.

• Metering, Proportioning Equipment

  GraviMix Micro small weighing and blending system can be installed directly on processing machine. System can blend up to four components, is constructed of stainless steel and equipped with removable hoppers for each component. Auto-Pulse system maintains accuracy of even small quantities. Throughput up to 100 lb/hr.

  GraviMix FMB blending system meters and weighs up to 10 components with throughputs to 6900 lb/hr. Blender constructed of stainless steel and has a sealed mixing chamber. Two economic and networking controls available. With an accuracy of 0.1% or better, blender is self-calibrating and automatically corrects differences from the recipe values. Designed for all processing operations. 

  The 150 and 500 series volumetric blenders precisely meter and mix free-flowing and nonfree-flowing powders, regrinds, liquids and pellets. May be machine-mounted or mounted on a stand for central blending. Throughputs from 150 to 4000 lb/hr. Mix hopper is stainless steel for longer wear and reliability. Metering hopper uses aluminum metering discs for high accuracy. Microprocessor control has 100-recipe storage and performs calculations for calibrations.

  Color Exact 1100, 2000 and 3250 feeders with throughputs to 90,000 g/hr are screw-type feeders for precise at-the-throat metering of color concentrate and regrind. Two versions available: SMD with a stepping motor for injection and DC/D with a d-c drive motor for extrusion. DC/D can be connected to the tachometer of the extruder to obtain synchronous operation between the machine and feeder. Metering screws/sleeves and material hoppers are stainless steel, and units are easily assembled and disassembled using quick release clamps.

  Color Exact PF 1200 feeder uses volumetric principles to meter nonfree-flowing powders and additives and comes in the SMD and DC/D versions with throughputs to 9072 g/hr with standard reduction. Unit equipped with cylindrical-shaped stainless-steel hopper with agitator. Special screw designed with an open spiral and fixed internal core ensures accurate metering. Modularly constructed transition piece enables several types of Color Exacts to be mounted at once.

   

• Optical Inspection Systems
• Particle Screeners, Classifiers, Separators
• Silos

  Central vacuum-conveying systems automate conveying of material from storage to processing machine. Filterless vacuum receivers made of stainless steel for longer production life. System enables fines and dust to be removed from material and transported down the vacuum line to the central safety filter. Microprocessor control scans and loads up to 32 vacuum receivers. Systems easily expandable for future integration of scrap granulators, dryers, and blending systems. Modicon or Allen-Bradley controls can be provided to accommodate special requirements.

  New E and EV stainless steel single-phase hopper loaders are designed for gentle transportation of virgin resins, regrinds and additives directly to the process machine. Hinged vacuum head ensures quick cleanup and easy maintenance. All units have a microprocessor control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function and mode including an audible and visual empty alarm. Loaders also have the capability of being converted to central system receivers. EV series is a glass tube loader with an optical sensor and nonreturn flap valve. Throughput of the E series is up to 400 lb/hr.

  S-Series three-phase single hopper loaders fabricated from corrosion-free stainless steel and designed for high-volume conveying up to 1650 lb/hr. Operator panel can be mounted on the receiver or installed on the vacuum unit. M-Series vacuum units are fully portable and feature a powerful three-phase vacuum blower, cartridge filter and exhaust manifold. Units can be connected to as many as three S-Series receivers.

• Vision Systems