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ROTARY KNIFE CUTTER

Cut corn, spices, roots, and other foods and grains into controlled sizes
gently, sharply and accurately, with little or no fines or dust

Greater shearing action with less impact Carbon steel Model
than comparable cutters––together with #4-MS Rotary
large screen area––produces cleanly-cut Knife Cutter
equipped
particles in high capacities, in sizes from with standard
pneumatic
3/64 to 2.0 in. (1.2 to 50.8 mm). transition.

The MUNSON Rotary Knife An extensive selection of screen
®
Cutter features a rotor assembly sizes allows tight control over end-
equipped with five full-length product sizes, making it ideal to
knives that cut material against cut or crack corn, grains, spices,
four stationary bed knives until roots, chips and similar products.
particles become small enough
to pass through apertures in a The rotor knives, which are
large, semi-cylindrical screen. milled of hardened tool steel Rotational inertia of the solid, The screens are retained within
and can be re-sharpened, heavy-weight rotor assembly, dual-hinged housings with
Compared with other types of rotate at 550 RPM as together with high-shear/low- precision-machined channels
mills, the Rotary Knife Cutter standard, imparting centrifugal resistance cutting action of the that allow easy access and
offers greater shear and less force that positions particles knives, yields greater output rapid screen changes.
impact, yielding particles between cutting edges of per horsepower/kilowatt than
having exceptionally clean cuts the rotating knives and the with other types of mills. Material discharged through
in tightly controlled size ranges, bed knives, which can be re- a flanged outlet is typically
with little or no fines or dust. sharpened as well as reversed. Material is gravity fed through removed by a dilute-phase
the infeed hopper at the top of vacuum conveyor, or gravity fed
the cutter, into the star-shaped into a downstream process.
rotor knives. On-size particles
pass through a perforated Hinged, safety-interlocked
screen having apertures from clamshell doors on both sides
3/64 to 2.0 inches (1.2 to provide full interior access,
50.8 mm) allowing a wide allowing clean-out of residual
range of end-product sizes. material or thorough sanitizing
between production runs.
The screens provide 320°
of exposure, achieving higher The rotor assembly rides on
throughput rates than sealed flange-block bearings
other types of mills, mounted on a heavy-gauge
even when small- fabricated and machined
aperture screens housing, and is powered
are utilized. by a fully guarded V-belt
drive assembly.

Carbon steel or stainless steel
construction in a range of
finishes is offered to satisfy
virtually any industrial or
sanitary requirement, including
flushing with water or a
Heavy gauge steel housings of MUNSON Rotary Knife Cutters provide vibration-free operation. This cleaning solution.
carbon steel model #4-MS includes a specialized flanged transition for pneumatic collection and sealed
flange-block ball bearings supporting the rotor assembly.