Oct 19, 2022 20:42
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Spanish term

Gusano de alimentación

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Manufacturing Cleaning procedures for industrial equipment
This term appears as an item in a list of industrial equipment parts that need to be visually inspected for cleanliness. The list includes:
Tolva de alimentación, soportes y cuerpo principal del micronizador, ***gusano de alimentación***, tobera, descarga de colector, tubo venturi, inyector canalizador, y empaques.

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Discussion

maría bergós Oct 23, 2022:
@Mariela @Taña Thanks Mariela and Taña, you are both very kind. I posted an answer with a couple of references.
Taña Dalglish Oct 23, 2022:
@ Mariela. Thank you, and it is very kind of you to value my contributions. However, I strongly believe that María Bergós (4th entry in discussion box) hit the nail on the head by first entering "tornillo sinfín (auger feeder)", which cued me into other references. @maría bergós, please be my guest and enter Mariela's choice, i.e."Auger/screw feeder)". @Mariela Diaz-Butler: Again, thank you. Good luck and regards.
Mariela Diaz-Butler (asker) Oct 23, 2022:
@Taña, I find that you were instrumental in my determining the right answer, since you provided me with a lot of the reference materials that corroborated my suspicions. And @Maria, you actually confirmed what I was suspecting. I would prefer to award kudoz points to one of you. Can one of you post the correct answer (Auger/screw feeder) so I can award the points?
Taña Dalglish Oct 20, 2022:
@ Mariela Understood. LOL. Here is the second part to the link I posted earlier: https://www.chemsmech.com/2022/03/part-2-of-3-micronizer-or-... (still trying to figure out), but María and yourself may be onto something. Good luck.
Mariela Diaz-Butler (asker) Oct 20, 2022:
Yes. I actually read the reference you posted to try to understand the concept. In the drawing it shows as part of the feeder (the blue chamber at the top of the graphic, which shows the screw), and after Maria mentioned it, it sort of confirmed it for me. In the interest of full disclosure, this is someone else's translation that I am editing, and they had used "feed hose", which to me sounded iffy, because I have always known "gusanos" to be "tornillos sin fin", or auger screws/feeders. That's what prompted me to ask.
Taña Dalglish Oct 20, 2022:
@ Mariela The link that I attached before: https://www.chemsmech.com/2022/03/part-1-of-2-micronizer-or-... refers to a picture (Pic Ref: www dot sturtevantinc dot com)
and MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE FLUID ENERGY MILL OR AN AIR JET MILL:

If it is an auger feeder as María Bergós now suggest, the parag. below refers to a "screw feeder (augar). I don't know if "augar" is an error and should be "auger".

**1. Feeding Chamber: Material feeding can be either by a Vibratory Feeder Or by a Screw Feeder (Augar).** Vibratory feeder is used for the products which are very light and may not get an appropriate push with the screw. The Screw Feeder is more prominently used in the industry.
Mariela Diaz-Butler (asker) Oct 20, 2022:
I've been looking at the schematics in various pages, but none of them actually point at those specific parts. However, because of the description, I tend to agree with Maria that this is an Auger Feeder. It's just that I do not know that for sure as I don't have specific images detailing and naming these parts.
maría bergós Oct 20, 2022:
Con ese contexto, un "gusano de alimentación", es un tornillo sinfín (auger feeder).
Pueden ver las imágenes en Google.

Taña Dalglish Oct 20, 2022:
Micronizers - SolidsWiki https://www.solidswiki.com › index.php › Micronizers
micronizer parts from www.solidswiki.com
14 Oct 2012 — Micronizers are Jet Mills that are used in employing compressed air or gas to produce particles less than one micron. Inside the Micronizer ...https://www.solidswiki.com/index.php/Micronizers
Mariela Diaz-Butler (asker) Oct 20, 2022:
The machine is a "micronizador". Unfortunately, I do not know what the machine does, and don't even have a picture of what it looks like or what the parts are.
philgoddard Oct 19, 2022:
Those are both translations, and not very good ones at that. I'd treat them with a grain of salt.
Could it be a screw? And what is the machine?

Proposed translations

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auger / screw feeder

Auger feeders are designed to gently convey the product to a hopper, bin or silo. As the auger has rotating helical blades it Is usually call gusano or tornillo in Spanish.

https://simple.ripley.com.pe/jgox3pza-repuesto-molino-de-gra...
Peer comment(s):

agree Taña Dalglish
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you Maria and Taña for your invaluable help."
10 hrs

Feeder tubes/pipes

No reference, but tubes and pipes in general often called "gusanos", as are those elasticated straps things for holding luggage onto the roof of your car.

A search for "feeder tubes" gets 1/4 million hits, from several areas.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2022-10-20 07:37:51 GMT)
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A similar search for "feeder worm" gets 35,000 hits, but the first ones I looked at were all about (live) feed for turtles and tortoises, et5c.
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2 days 23 hrs

Screw feeder

According to the list of items to be inspected, it is clear that the "gusano de alimentación" forms part of the material flow process. It feeds the micronizer from the hopper at a constant rate. The only equipment capable of conveying, in an efficient and metered, way is a screw feeder.
See, for example,
https://www.kwsmfg.com/engineering-guides/screw-conveyor/typ...
Or
https://www.schenckprocess.com/glossary/screw-feeder

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Reference comments

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Reference:

gusano sugiere que come no que alimenta...

La búsqueda sólo da un resultado con gusano.. y no lo abro porque sale un aviso del antivirus de que un sitio peligroso

Quizás lo llaman gusano porque tiene una forma que lo recuerda, pero los pocos resultados llevan a pensar que quizás es un error o al menos no es algo habitual

Preguntaría al cliente y tal vez con alguna foto se aclare la duda



Si en vez de gusano se pone tubo de alimentación hay muchos resultados


Peer comments on this reference comment:

neutral Taña Dalglish : https://epsa.mx/ensacadoras-de-bolsa/ensacadoras-de-bolsa-va... Cuando un ciclo de llenado es iniciado, el material fluye por gravedad a través de la compuerta hasta el gusano de alimentación que transporta el material hasta el saco.
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Reference:

Ref.

https://epsa.mx/ensacadoras-de-bolsa/ensacadoras-de-bolsa-va...
Ensacadora por gravedad y gusano para sacos de 20 a 110 lbs. (9-50kgs.) para materiales de Fluido Libre Granular y Pellets a velocidades de 1 a 6 sacos por minuto.

La ensacadora por gravedad y gusano 650 Series tiene una compuerta de flujo especialmente diseñada activada por gravedad. El material fluye por gravedad desde la tolva de alimentación hasta la compuerta de alimentación en la parte superior del equipo. Cuando un ciclo de llenado es iniciado, el material fluye por gravedad a través de la compuerta hasta el ***gusano de alimentación*** que transporta el material hasta el saco. No se requiere aire para su operación básica. La 650 Series es una ensacadora automática de peso bruto con báscula mecánica que llena y pesa el material dentro de la bolsa simultáneamente.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree slothm : Spot on as always.
7 hrs
Thanks. However, still stuck as to what the "gusano de alimentación" really is whether as suggested by María now (discussion box), if it is a "screw feeder (auger)" or a "line", or what? Still unclear to me, to be honest.
agree neilmac : I think it's a line/tube/hose/pìpe of some kind...
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Thanks Neil. See my response to slothm.
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