Extracting Line

My extracting line contains an uncapper, chain feed rack and a 96 frame parallell radial extractor. Extracted frames coming out of extractor.

Deboxer and uncapper. Uncapper with vibrating heated knives that cut the cappings. Frames are fed through the uncapper at a speed of 12 frames per minute. More details of uncapper at work in ling story

This is a spinner I used before the Centrifuge. It is made from an old milk vat. The honey and wax from the uncapper is pumped to the cappings spinner. Wax is manually removed between each cycle, otherwise the wax would build up to layer so thick that honey could not penetrate it.

Honey from Extractor and wax - honey mix from Uncapper is mixed evenly before pumed to Centrifuge.

A variable speed Mono pump take the honey - wax to the Heat Exchanger and Centrifuge.

In 2000 I started using a spin-float instead to handle the wax. Heat exchanger on the wall.

Frames are loaded into the extractor by an air ram pushing them in. At the same time the extracted frames are pushed out on the other side.

New frames are uncapped while the extractor runs a cycle. One person manage 150 boxes on a working day. Two persons do 4 cycles per hour, that's more than 300 boxes.

Another model of dairy farm milk vats commonly used for honey. They hold 2.600 kg each, and have water circulating in the bottom to allow heating or cooling the honey.

Honey is filled on 70 kg containers after fine straining and crystallizing.

In the spring of 2003 I made a conveyor to transport the empty boxes from deboxer to the other end of the line. We had been moving them by hand until now and getting tired of empty boxes all over the floor. This turned out to be a real progress, and worked very well.

A switch stops the band when a box reach the end.