Oven 20274 - Core Wash

Enhanced Features: • Microprocessor based temperature controller, with integrated  Automatic tuning, and PID (Proportional band, Integral time, Derivative time) • Honeywell digital chart recorder • Maxon Ovenpak® burner • FM, IRI, and NFPA compliant gas pipetrain • Coleman® Jet-Action® nozzles for high velocity air impingement • New York Blower fans • Reliance variable frequency (variable speed) conveyor motor drive • Electrically operated, counterweighted, lift doors at entrance and exit • Powered, brush-type belt cleaner to maintain peak airflow efficiency • Externally adjustable damper controls for upper and lower supply ducts • 5' conveyor extensions at each end to ease manual loading and unloading • Local 30 amp disconnects for each 3 phase motor • (2) remote operator stations, one at each end of the conveyor • Photo-eye at exit end of conveyor, stops the conveyor before cores can fall tto the floor • FECO's steel "herringbone" slider bed • Roller type belt return • Ashworth premium flat wire belt • Steel-It premium, type 316 stainless steel impregnated coating on all structural steel • Exclusively Aluminized sheet metal used throughout the oven

Core Wash Oven  This oven is an example of a CONVECTION CORE WASH DRYING OVEN, with a (2) two foot wide flatwire conveyor belt.  It is a single zone oven rated at 600°F, with a capacity of 6000 lbs. per hour.  In this application, Coleman® Jet-Action® nozzles are used to dry core dip, on a variety of sizes and shapes of sand cores.   The base oven was modified with conveyor extensions for ease of manual loading and unloading, a variable speed conveyor drive to adjust the cure time, a powered belt cleaner to maintain efficiency, and a part present photo-eye at the exit end of the conveyor to stop the conveyor before cores can fall to the floor.  The approximate overall dimensions of this oven are16 feet long X 6 feet wide X 10 feet high.  The length of this unit, with extended conveyor, (as shown) is 37 feet. Specifications: TEMPERATURE RANGE • 375°F operating temperature, 600°F maximum temperature OVERALL SIZE (approximate) • 16' long x 6' wide x 10' high HEAT SOURCE • Natural Gas HEATING CAPACITY • 1,500,000 BTUH burner PRODUCTION RATE • 6,000 lbs. of dipped sand core per hour (maximum 5 lbs. per core) TOTAL NOMINALWORKSPACE • 17 cubic feet (2' x 15' x 7") AIR DISTRIBUTION TYPE • Convection - top down + bottom up AIR CHANGES • 30 per minute NUMBER OF ZONES • (1) one INSULATION CONSTRUCTION • 4 inch "Stop Gap" panel construction, with 6 lb. per cubic foot high temperature mineral wool insulation