Moving chips is typically handled pneumatically or mechanically.

Pneumatic conveyors employ air to move material. Either positive pressure (blowing) or vacuum (sucking) can be used. Often the pressure created by the wringer can be used to power the conveyor. Pneumatic conveyors are typically installed overhead. See a video of an example installation.

Custom-engineered pneumatic discharge seals on a van type dry chip trailer.

Rotary airlock mechanically introduces high volumes of dry chips into a pressurized pneumatic conveying system for transport over distances of a couple hundred feet to over 1,000 feet.

Chips can be discharged into silos, hoppers, bunkers, rail cars, or van-type trailers.

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Pick up boot collects chips discharged from individual machining centers and manages the introduction of these chips into the vacuum transport duct for delivery to a central chip management system.

Vacuum generated by a material handling fan or for greatest economy by the Inter-Source wringer.

This Inter-Source exclusive eliminates all routine chip handling, easily integrates within available space, and serves to minimize coolant mist at the machining center.

Pick up boot with shredder sizes chips at the source, prior to pneumatic transport.

Pneumatic conveyor blowing chips into a covered trailer, following processing through a 30" Inter-Source wringer system.

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In high volume and / or abrasive chip applications, the portions of cast elbow segments that receive the most wear have additional thickness, ensuring long life. A dime appears in both photos to show the width variation.

The elbow's cast construction allows for heat treating, in addition to the extra material protecting the area of high wear.

The single 15 degree cast segment also provides for assembly of any elbow size, up to 90 degrees. Wear is inevitable even with these superior elbows, but the segmentation allows for portion replacement, not the entire elbow as fabricated elbows require.

Vacuum transport from a central coolant filter to the wringer, using wringer-generated vacuum.

Chips discharged from one of two central coolant filters are collected, shredded, metered and pneumatically transported by vacuum to a single, central Inter-Source 30” continuous chip wringer.

Blowers pneumatically transport dry chips for distances beyond what wringer forces can propel them, and / or following magnetic separation. There are three general types of blowers: scroll, pressure and turbine. The type utilized depends upon the volume of chips to be moved and the distance. Dry chips may be moved significant distances with this technology.

Wet chips are transported by vacuum from multiple pick-up points throughout the facility and pneumatically conveyed for central processing.