The scrap battery needs to be opened up and all the components segregated before the lead-bearing scrap is to be charged in the Furnace for Lead Smelting. Opening up of Battery is a time consuming and tedious process and also worker intensive. Hence Eros has worked out simple mechanical solutions to do some of the jobs involved in this process in a faster and safer way.
First and foremost among them is a Battery Cutting Machine, also called by its short name “BCM” in the trade.
A Battery Cutting Machine can be considered as a simple tool to cut open up the Battery Boxes. It is a semi-automatic electro-mechanical device that uses high-speed multi-metal circular blades to cut the boxes into two portions such that the lids with upper terminals and connectors are shaved off from the rest of the contents.
Battery Cutting Machines (BCM) are available in different models depending upon the average median size of batteries and load of operations. Machines provided by us are sturdy with a solid framework for handling the stress of continuous rough handling and are optimally balanced to ensure minimum maintenance and maximum life of consumables. They can be provided in complete SS configurations and with higher motor powers depending upon the requirements.
A BCM has the functions of cutting the battery as well as arrangements of centering the battery fed and also adjusting the height of the cutter blades. The batteries are manually loaded on the rubber conveyor to minimize human involvement in the cutting operation. However, these machines are essentially batch type machines where batteries of different sizes are to be stacked up in batches and one batch of similar-sized batteries are cut at one time.
Once the battery has been cut open, it will need supplementary operations for removal of terminals and/ or connector locks and crushing of empty boxes, and washing of crushed Plastic chips. These operations can be done manually as generally prevalent, or with the use of add-on machine modules supplied by us, viz. Terminal Removers, Lock Removers, Box Breakers, Washing Machines, Trommel Conveyors, etc.
Terminal and Lock removers are simple tool arrangements to separate terminals from the lid or to break free any locks not cut by BCM in the box.
Box Breakers are rotating hammer type crushers which crush a plastic box to make plastic chips which are easily washable and transportable in sacks.
Washing machines are rotating drums in a holding drum-type arrangement which can be used to clean the chips of any lead residue or can also be used to wash PVC separators with minimum use of water.
Also available are Trommel conveyors/ rotary screens for the separation of lead-bearing scrap from the cut Battery after BCM in a mechanized manner without human involvement.
Most of the machines in this line up can be customized to suit the capacity required and also as per the material of construction desired.
To know more, please check Eros Envirotech.
