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A TAM PLIN System 3 Discharge unit is being used by Freightliner to unload S65 pvc resin from Milan arriving at Pirelli's General Cable Works in The shippers, Danzas SA, commissioned the unit to Tamlin's specification. It comprises a blower bulker mounted to a Fromco skeletal tipping trailer.
The 20ft ISO container's special design — with the standard doors and the top and bottom hatches located at opposite ends to conventional positions — allows use on normal-return journeys.
A Tamplin / Ford 2711E power pack is used direct — coupled to a Holmes 68 blower with silencer Discharge of the resin is made using a connecting sock, which forms part of the disposable plastic liner, and is fed through the bottom hatch onto a special Waeshle rotary discharge valve. The liner is filled via the top hatch, A full working platform, con Southampton.
structed at Tamplin's factory at Birdham near Chichester in Sussex, and mounted at the discharge end, makes the use of ladders unnecessary.
The Tamplin sock system of venting avoids the use of vent pipes in the top of the container bag.