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Vortex® Hand Slide Orifice Gate™

Vortex Valves Europe
24 Evans Business Centre
Lingfield Way
Darlington
County Durham
DL1 4PS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 870 770 9861
vortex.eu@vortexvalves.com
Valve Specifications
Size/Bore Options 50mm, 75mm, 100mm, 150mm, 200mm, 250mm, 300mm, 350mm Diameters.
Media Powder, Pellets, Granulars
Connection Options Compression Coupling, ANSI, DIN, JIS, Custom Flanges
Media Temperature Modifications can be made to allow up to 200°C continuous to 230°C intermittent service.
Media Pressure 0 MPa, Gravity Only
Metal Construction Options 304 or 316L Stainless Steel, Aluminum, and/or Carbon Steel
Seal/Seat Material Options Nylon, PET, UHMW, Glass Filled Teflon, Rubber, and/or Silicon
Actuation Options Hand Slide
Position Detection Visual Detection
Compliance/Approvals CE, ATEX, FDA
Industry Use Plastics, Petrochemicals, Chemicals, Foods, Minerals, Textiles, Agriculture

The Vortex Hand Slide Orifice Gate valve offers a dust tight seal when handling dry bulk material in gravity flow applications. This manually operated slide gate is an excellent choice for bins, and hoppers where the use of powered gates is not feasible or desirable. The design of the Hand Slide Orifice Gate is particularly appreciated by companies that utilize ibcs and totes because it totally “blinds” the opening.

ADDITIONAL VORTEX VALVE PRODUCT INFORMATION

“Live load” seals

Other hand slide gate valves offer metal-to-metal contact and do not seal dust or fine materials. The Vortex Hand Slide Orifice Gate valve eliminates this problem by using hard polymer seal plates. The plates are “live loaded.” This feature allows them to continue to make seal contact with the blade, even as wear occurs.

Hand Slide Orifice Gate is a Salina Vortex trademarked product. Industries utilize different equipment terminologies. This type of valve is typically used to control material discharge from bins, hoppers, ibcs, and totes.

This type of valve may also be known to those within the dry material handling industry as: bulk solid handling valve, control valve, dry material handling valve, dry material valve, feeder gate valve, fibc discharge valve, gate valve, gravity valve, hand slide gate, hand slide knife gate, ibc discharge valve, knife gate valve, low profile slide gate, maintenance slide gate, material handling valve, salina valve, slide gate, slide valve, vortex, vortex valve.
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