Snyder Industries 58 Cubic Feet 60 Degree Plastic Flowmaster Dry Hopper Bin Tank

A 48 inch square under it, 91 inches of height above it

Where it stands is the whole specification. The base is a 48 inch square, which is the pallet plan nearly every plant already stores, racks and moves to, so the bin drops into a position that was laid out for something else and the aisle does not have to be redrawn. Above that square it goes up 91 inches, and those 91 inches are what you are buying: the material sits high enough that gravity does the work instead of a person with a scoop or a hoist. Measure the height before you order, not after. Ninety-one inches standing on a slab clears a standard dock door, but a low mezzanine, a sprinkler main, a light fitting or a duct run at that height ends the conversation, and the check takes a tape and two minutes. The one dimension this sheet does not publish is the height from the floor to the discharge, and that is the number that decides whether a drum, a bag filler, a weigh hopper, a screw feeder or a mixer inlet fits underneath. Measure what has to go under it and tell us before the order rather than on delivery day. The surface under it has to be flat, continuous and level across the entire 48 by 48 inch base: a slab, a structural deck, or a steel frame built for the job. Not two rails with the middle hanging, not a pallet with a broken board, not shimmed at one corner. Empty the bin is 352 pounds. Loaded, the weight depends entirely on the bulk density of what you put in, which this sheet does not publish and we will not invent, so weigh the material or get the density from your supplier before anything is designed underneath it. Where the floor is a poured pad rather than a structural slab, the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out how that pad gets sized and where the boundary lies. For general sizing across our range the tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide are the tools we point people at, with the honest caveat that both are written around liquid volume and this bin is sold in cubic feet.

The 58 cubic foot bin, the viscous 375 and the feed station

Three products, three different jobs, and the table is the fastest way to see it. This bin is the dry one, rated in cubic feet, for material that is tipped, augered or poured in and falls out of the bottom. SII-6371421N95402 is the viscous bin: rated in gallons at 375, built for product that flows slowly but does flow, on a 45 by 48 inch plan at 76 inches tall and 396 pounds. It is fifteen inches shorter than this bin and forty-four pounds heavier, which is the shape of the difference between holding dry material and holding something that slumps. Order by what is going in, not by which one fits the corner. SII-5770103CF45 is not a bin at all; it is a chemical feed station holding 440 gallons at 350 pounds, and it is listed here because it lands in the same volume band. It spreads to 83 by 68 inches and stands only 69 inches, so it trades floor for height in the opposite direction to this bin: where the roof is low and the floor is free, that is the shape to be reading about. Where the floor is the constraint and the process is underneath, the 48 inch square and the 91 inch height on this line is the reason to be here. If a supplier has quoted you a figure in cubic feet and your drawing is in gallons, send us both and we will quote against the sheet rather than a conversion of our own.

Need two of them? Request a written quote for the pair with freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777 and we will price the truck once.

A 2 inch discharge under a 60 degree cone

• The discharge: the sheet lists a 2 inch outlet at the bottom of the sloped section. On dry material the opening size and the material's own behaviour decide the flow, so the gate, the adapter or the valve that goes on it is chosen against particle size and flow character, not against whatever pipe is on the shelf.
• The cone: the sheet gives 60 degrees and the name repeats it. That is the whole of the published geometry. No discharge height, no included angle beyond that figure and no flow rate appears on this sheet, so none is claimed here.
• Bridging and rat-holing: dry material can arch over an opening or channel straight down the middle and leave the walls loaded. That is a property of the material, not a fault in the bin, and it is designed around at the discharge and in the fill habit. Tell us what the material is and how it behaves and the discharge specification can be pointed the right way.
• What hangs underneath: the gate, the feeder and the receiving container are supported on their own frame. Nothing bolted to a polyethylene wall carries hardware, and 352 pounds of empty bin is not a pipe support.
• Filling: a 12 inch lid on top at 91 inches, which is above head height on most people and therefore a platform, a mezzanine edge or a fill spout rather than a hand and a bag. Twelve inches takes a chute, a spout, a lance or an arm; plan the access to it before the bin arrives.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C is the service limit and the only limit this sheet publishes. There is no warranty term on it and no bulk density rating, so this page states none.

Do not read the gallon figure as a duty. The sheet lists 434 gallons and a specific gravity of 1.9 alongside the 58 cubic feet rating, and we print them because that is what the sheet says, not because this bin is sold to hold liquid. If the job is liquid, ask us for a liquid vessel and we will quote one against its own sheet.

Dry product stored over the machine that eats it

Fifty-eight cubic feet is bought where the bag, the sack or the drum has become the bottleneck and the process below wants a steady feed: resin pellets and regrind at a moulding plant, powdered treatment chemical at a water works, granular additive or pigment on a compounding line, blended feed, seed or mineral at a mill or a farm, salt, lime and grit at a municipal yard, abrasive media in a blast shop, and powder that gets decanted into small containers for issue to a line. In every one of those the argument is the same and it is not the purchase price: gravity is free, handling is not, and a person cutting sacks over a hopper is the most expensive part of the whole arrangement. What this bin gives you is a pallet-sized plan, 91 inches of height to feed from, a steep 60 degree cone and an opening big enough to fill through properly. What it does not give you is a flow guarantee for your particular material, and anybody offering one without first asking what the material is has not understood the question.

Shipped 48 by 48 by 91 out of Lincoln

This bin is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet lists Nebraska as the state it ships from. The freight class is given as LTL under NMFC 156600-03, which is a mode rather than a numeric class, and the shipping size is 48 inches long by 48 inches wide by 91 inches high: a plain pallet footprint standing up, which loads and blocks well but wants headroom in the trailer. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Three hundred and fifty-two pounds empty means forks or a pallet jack at both ends, so book the machine for the delivery window rather than the afternoon. Take it from under the base and never by the lid or the discharge. Set it on its finished position or its frame, fit the gate and get the receiving container underneath, and then put a harmless material through it before the real one. A bin nobody has watched empty is a bin whose flow is still a guess, and the cheapest hour to spend on that is the one before it is full of something expensive. Photograph the outlet fitting from below before the pipe goes on; a slow weep is easier to compare against than to describe.