Snyder Industries 68 Cubic Feet 60 Degree Plastic Flowmaster Dry Hopper Bin Tank

Standing 102 inches over a 48 by 45 inch footprint

Two numbers decide whether this bin belongs in your building, and they pull against each other. The footprint is small: 48 by 45 inches, narrower than a full pallet square in one direction, which is what lets it stand between machine frames, beside a conveyor leg or in a bay that was laid out for something else. The height is not small: 102 inches, eight and a half feet, and that goes above a standard dock door. Walk the route before you order, not just the destination. The door the bin enters through, the lowest sprinkler head over the aisle, the duct, the light fitting, the crane rail and the mezzanine underside all have to clear 102 inches, and the tape costs nothing. What the height gives back is clearance under the discharge, which is the reason anybody buys a hopper bottom in the first place: material leaves into a container, a feeder or a machine inlet with gravity doing the work. The sheet does not publish the height from the floor to that discharge, so measure what has to fit underneath and tell us before the order rather than when the truck is on the apron. The bearing surface has to take the entire 48 by 45 inch base flat and level, on a slab, a structural deck or a steel frame built for the job; if it is a frame, the frame sets the discharge height and the frame carries the engineering, because this sheet gives no leg, no stand and no anchor point and this page invents none. Three hundred and fifty-two pounds empty is a forklift job on its own, and the loaded weight follows the bulk density of the material, which this sheet does not give. Weigh it or get it from the supplier before the steel is drawn. On a poured pad rather than a structural floor, the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks answers the loading question properly. The tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide are our general sizing tools; both are written around liquid volume, which is worth remembering on a bin sold in cubic feet.

The 68, the 60 and the 600 gallon viscous bin

Row two is the honest comparison and it is a clean one. SII-6370629N95402 stands on exactly the same 48 by 45 inch plan at exactly the same 352 pounds and reaches 86 inches instead of 102. Nothing else changes: same footprint in the aisle, same lift on the forklift, same pallet position, sixteen inches less height and correspondingly less material per fill. If your building gives you the headroom, this taller bin is the better buy every time, because the extra volume is free in every dimension that costs you money on a factory floor. If the ceiling, the door or the sprinkler line stops you at eight feet, take the 86 inch bin and stop worrying about it. Row three is a different vessel wearing a similar outline. SII-6370721N95402 is the viscous bin, rated at 600 gallons for product that flows slowly, 45 by 48 by 107 inches and 495 pounds. It is only five inches taller than this bin and it weighs 495 pounds empty against 352, and that weight is the tell: it is built to hold a liquid load at the rating rather than dry material. Order by the state of what you are storing. A powder, a pellet or a granule belongs in this bin. A paste, a slurry or a thick liquid belongs in the viscous one, and choosing by which unit the supplier happened to quote you is how a bin ends up doing the wrong job for ten years.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

The 2 inch bottom outlet and the 12 inch top lid

• The outlet: 2 inches, at the bottom of the 60 degree cone, exactly as the sheet gives it. The gate, adapter or slide that goes on it is chosen against the particle size and flow character of the material, and the run below it stays short and falling.
• The cone: 60 degrees is the published figure and the whole of the published geometry. No flow rate, no angle of repose and no discharge height appears on this sheet, and none is claimed on this page.
• Material behaviour: arching over the opening and channelling through the middle are properties of the material, designed around at the discharge and in how the bin is filled. Tell us what the material is and how it has behaved before and the specification can be pointed the right way.
• Underneath: the gate, the feeder and the receiving container stand on their own steel. The bin is a container; it is not a support for hardware and never a support for pipework.
• The fill: a 12 inch lid at 102 inches, which is a platform or a fixed fill line rather than a hand and a sack. It is also the only inspection and clean-out access, so keep the space above it clear enough to get a lance in.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C is the service limit and the only limit on this sheet. There is no warranty term, no bulk density rating and no published cleaning regime, so this page asserts none of the three.

The 510 gallon figure and the 1.9 specific gravity that appear on this sheet are printed here because the sheet carries them. They are not an offer of liquid service on a dry hopper bin. If your job is liquid, say so and we will quote a vessel whose sheet is written for it rather than stretch this one to fit.

Bulk dry material staged above a feed point

Sixty-eight cubic feet on a small footprint is bought by the plant that has run out of floor before it ran out of demand: a moulding shop feeding a dryer, blender or throat; a water or wastewater plant holding powdered treatment chemical over a feeder; a compounder staging pigment, filler or additive above a line; a mill or farm holding blended ration, seed or mineral; a yard keeping salt, lime and grit dry and contained; a blast shop staging media above a pot. The reason the tall bin wins in those buildings is that the bottleneck is almost never the cubic feet, it is the aisle those cubic feet have to stand in. Going up rather than out keeps the pallet position, keeps the forklift route, keeps the walkway, and still cuts the number of times somebody splits a sack over an open hopper. What this bin cannot do is promise how your specific material will move through a 2 inch opening on a 60 degree slope, and anybody who promises that without asking what the material is has skipped the only question that matters.

Three hundred and fifty-two pounds, shipped lying down

Moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska given as the shipping state. The sheet gives the freight class as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-03, and the shipping dimensions are listed as 102 inches long by 45 inches wide by 48 inches high: the bin travelling on its side. That keeps it under trailer height and it changes the unload, because what comes off the truck is a long shipment that then has to be stood up in the aisle. Have the forklift, the room to swing it and a second person there when it arrives. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Handle it from under the base or the shipment only, never by the lid, never by the discharge, and never with a sling tightened around the cone. Stand it on its finished position or its frame, level it, fit the gate and the receiving equipment, and then put a harmless material through it before the expensive one. Every bin that ever blocked did it on the first real batch, in front of an audience, at the worst hour of the shift. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.