Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.
Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.

Weigh Feeder

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The weigh feeder control gear at Kandos Cement Works. Precision equipment that regulated the volume of raw material fed into the process at each stage. Cement Australia closed the plant in September 2011.

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Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.Weigh Feeder at Kandos Cement Works, steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Weigh Feeder
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-040
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1s s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Kandos, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A weigh feeder at Kandos Cement Works sits at the bottom of a hopper outlet, the device that metered one component of the raw mix onto the conveyor running into the kiln circuit. The feeder is a short enclosed belt running between two pulleys, mounted on load cells that measured the weight of material on the belt at any given moment. The drive motor sits at one end on a bracket; a control panel mounted on the side of the enclosure carries the readouts and the set-point adjustments. The hopper above drops material onto the belt through a metered chute. The belt is rubber, scored from years of running raw material across it. Cement and meal dust have settled along the enclosure seams.

A weigh feeder is the workhorse of any process plant that runs to a proportional recipe. The load cells under the belt measure the mass of material moving across a fixed belt length, and the feed control adjusts the belt speed and gate opening to hold a target rate. Kandos Cement Works ran weigh feeders in the kiln feed circuit and on the mill input lines, holding the chemical recipe of the cement to the specification the lab tested against. The plant closed in September 2011 after 95 years of continuous cement production. The feeder stopped at the same time the kiln did.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel grating covers the floor, its diamond-pattern surface worn dark withite dust and grease. A flow metre and control valve sit centre frame, flanked by a tangle of pipework and electrical conduit that runs overhead in every direction. Hazard triangles mark the base of the main vessel. To the left, red-handled valve indicators line the wall behind safety railing. Pale light enters through corrugated cladding on the right. The air feels thick, metallic, still.

Brett Patman

Kandos Cement Works

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM KANDOS CEMENT WORKS

39 other prints in this series

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Number Six Raw Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a ball mill sits heavy in the half-light, its riveted steel drum tilted toward.
Number Six Raw Mill $100.00
Clinker Shed at Kandos Cement Works, steel trusses span the full width of the shed, supported by heavy columns streaked.
Clinker Shed $100.00
Cyclonic Separator at Kandos Cement Works, steel mesh grating covers the floor, open to the darkness below.
Cyclonic Separator $100.00
Number Six Ball Mill Drive at Kandos Cement Works, the motor and gearbox that once drove the ball mill, now sitting.
Number Six Ball Mill Drive $100.00
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