Holding Bins. Standard Tower configuration has 9 holding bins. Tower can be customized with 2 to up to 15 bins to accommodate additional fertilizer ingredients. One flow-through tube is standard which bypasses the bins for adding ingredients directly into the blend.
	Tapered Auger Single Unit Blender System. Blender . fills at the top through a sealed canvas system for environmentally safe operation. Gearbox and motor drive is easily accessible with ladder, OSHA-approved walk-around and guard rails. Tower can be configured with 2 blenders for greater capacity and flexibility.
	Collection Hopper. Available in mild or stainless steel with 10 inlets and 2 outlets for dispensing product. Standard unit dispenses into weigh hopper, but if weigh hopper is not desired, Tower can be designed to dispense directly into the blender. Top is sealed to eliminate dust; lid is removable.

Choosing a tower blend system for high tonnage use? The new Layco Tower Blend System will be your best choice. The standard Tower features the reliable and proven Layco Tapered Auger Vertical Single Unit Blender, with the option of expanding capacity by adding a second blender. Also standard are nine bins, a collection hopper and a weigh hopper. The Tower Blend System can be custom-designed to fit blend and capacity requirements up to 150 tons per hour and 2 to 15 bins. The tubular modular design with side cladding assures years of dependable use. With the Layco brand, you get quality and a reputation for fine workmanship, excellent service and parts, and an aggressive, innovative company which prides itself on honesty and the ability to tune in to the needs of its customers. You can’t choosebetter than the reliability of Layco.

• 12’ x 18’ x Height (varies to match overall capacity desired)
• Number of bins can be custom designed to meet customer’s needs
• Pass-through spouting can be included to meet customer’s needs
• 3/16” mild steel walls
• 1/4” mild steel cone
• 1/4” mild steel tread plate top
• Bin access doors with stainless steel cover
• Steel ladder rungs in each bin for personnel access
• Mild steel tubular hand rail around top with toe plate
• 12”, 14” or 16” stainless steel air-operated Salem gates

• Capacity based upon 60 lb. per cubic foot material, fully enclosed
• 12-gauge stainless steel construction
• Access door with stainless steel cover
• 16” x 16” stainless steel air-operated Salem gate

• 25,000 pound NTEP-approved mild steel scale (single load cell)

• 15-piece mild steel tubular construction minimizes erection costs
• Structural design incorporates moldings and brackets to attach cladding system
• Factory paint system to minimize corrosion
• Tubular legs are 10” x 10” x 1/2” wall with 1-1/4” base plates
• Clear distance between legs is 16’4”
• Minimum drive-through width at foundation piers is 15’2”
• Cross brace panels are made of 3” square and 6” x 3” rectangular tubing with 3/16” wall thickness

• Decks at weigh hopper and base of blender are constructed of 3” square 3/16” wall tubing with heavy-duty raised expanded metal grating
• Other decks are constructed as above but may also utilize 3” x 3” x 3/8” angle at the deck supports
• Towers with weigh hoppers can have as few as 3 decks; towers without weigh hoppers can have as few as 2 decks

• Translucent FRP corrugated siding panels
• Glue-lam lumber is attached to the structural steel member at the factory to provide a solid, long-lasting and labor- saving attachment medium for the cladding screws

• 100% bolt together
• Lifting eyes designed into all of the major components

• Manual air gate control to fully automated computer control available

• Volumetric Blender
• Tapered Vertical Auger
• Vertical Auger Self-Contained Blender
• Super Flow Rotary Blend System
• Single Unit Blenders
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