Squeezer - Hopeland F102

Overview
The Squeezer is also the main machine of fishmeal plant in the wet pressing method. It consists of main body, double-screw, screen holder and power plant. It deals with the cooked material to separate the solid and liquid.
Squeezer is carried out in a press chamber consisting of two hollow interlocked cylinders. The cylinder wall is made of heavily supported strainer plates made from stainless steel. The two press screws have tapered shafts and the screw pitch varies so that the pitch, and thus the flight distance, is greatest at the thin end of the shafts. The screws rotate in opposite senses. The material is fed in at the end where the shafts are thinner, and is carried towards the end where they are thicker. As can be seen, the space for the material gradually reduces and, to compensate, liquid is pressed out through the strainer plates surrounding the screws.