Hand Rake Screens

Hand Rake Screen

WEC Projects manufactures manually raked screens from mild steel. These screens are mainly used at the inlet to a packaged or municipal sewage treatment plant.

The bars are normally spaced at 25mm apart but this can be modified to suite the application.

All steel surfaces are suitably corrosion protection.









Mechanical Screens

Top

In addition to our rotary type screen the latest addition to our supply of manufactured products is the FRONT RAKE SCREEN.

While this is new to our range in terms of production it is by no means a new product, as our Design Engineers, Quality Control and Project Mangers have been involved with this type of screen for many years. We have successfully installed and have in operation working units that can be viewed on request.

The advantages of the Water Engineering Front Rake Screen is in its simplicity of design in the Head mounted Direct Drive Scraper Mechanism - Twin Action Drive Chains - Precision Cut Teeth and easy Mounting arrangements


Rotary Screens

The Rotary Screen is a mechanically raked curved bar screen suitable for small to medium screening installations where channel depths are not excessive. The design of the screen is simple with a minimum of moving parts, thus ensuring reliability and the minimum of maintenance and has no moving parts under water apart from the rake and arms, which submerge during the raking operation only. Two diametrically opposed rake arm assemblies rotate about a common shaft to sweep the curved screen clean. A shaft mounted geared motor provides the raking motion and is protected from overload by a torque arm and overload device. The rake arms are parked in a horizontal position out of the flow and during flow travel upwards to remove screenings. Removal of the screenings from the rake tines is by a simple scraper mechanism as the rake rotates.

Screen Bars
The screen body assembly comprises a grid of curved concave to the upstream flow thus presenting the maximum possible screening area. The grid is supported at each end and between two side plates and forms a rigid assembly. 

Rakes And Tines
Two rakes opposed at 180 are rigidly mounted on tubular arms fixed to a common shaft. The shaft is mounted through self-aligning and sealed heavy-duty bearings to the top of the screen body. The rakes are driven by a shaft mounted geared motor. During engagement the rake tines protrude completely through the spaces between the bars in the screen, thus ensuring complete cleaning of the grid.

Top

Interesting Facts

"Raindrops are not tear-shaped. Scientists, using high-speed cameras, have discovered that raindrops resemble the shape of a small hamburger bun."

"The average human body is composed of about 55% water"

"Life on earth probably originated in water"

"More than half of the world's animal and plant species live in the water"

"Almost 70% of the earth is covered in water"

"The human body needs 2 litres of water a day in our climate; we can last only a few days without water"

"Most of our food is water: tomatoes (95%), spinach (91%), milk (90%), apples (85%), potatoes (80%), beef (61%), hot dogs (56%). "