Rod Chargers

For charging grinding rods into rod mills
Heath & Sherwood designs and builds custom Rod Chargers to adapt to the unique plant and Rod Mill layout. The Rod Charger supplied in this project is compatible with 12'x 15' Rod Mill and handles Steel Rods up to 4" Diameter and 14 1/2' ft in length. All electrical and mechanical details required to be CE Certified were completed and inspected before shipment. What is CE marking?  CE Marking is identified by the symbol  displayed on the equipment. CE Marking on a product is a manufacturer's declaration that the product complies with the essential requirements of the relevant European health, safety and environmental protection legislations, in practice by many of the so-called Product Directives*. *Product Directives contains the "essential requirements" and/or "performance levels" and "Harmonized Standards" to which the products must conform. Harmonized Standards are the technical specifications (European Standards or Harmonization Documents) which are established by several European standards agencies (CEN, CENELEC, etc). CEN stands for European Committee for Standardization. CENELEC stands for European Committee for Electro-technical Standardization.
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The Rod Charger in the series of pictures below is going to Ireland and is the first CE -Marked Rod Charger that Heath & Sherwood has built.
For charging grinding rods into rod mills
Heath & Sherwood (1964) Limited manufactures rod charges for any size rod mill. Heath & Sherwood is a leader in innovative design with units in operation around the world. Each machine can be custom designed and manufactured to suit individual charging requirements and plant layout.
Features
minimum process interruption no operator contact with rod 30 seconds or less cycle time per rod
Efficient
rubber rod rollers for traction all rollers powered for full rod insertion mechanized rod indexing
Rugged Construction/Low Maintenance
constructed from hollow structural steel few moving parts no special tools