Milton CAT AP1055D - Manual (Page 8)

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Exclusive Material Delivery System
Productivity and quality enhancements are built-in features.
The feeders have outboard mounted
motors, reducers and feeder drive
chains to maximize the live feeder
tunnel area and reduce center line
segregation. This design also provides
greater ease of servicing the feeder
drive system.
Outboard Feeder Drives
Increased live tunnel area
provides easy servicing.
The AP-1055D provides precise mix delivery with minimal
operator monitoring through the most advanced material
handling system.
Left and right feeders in addition to the left and right augers
are controlled independently. The ability to control these four
components separately, through a machine controller,
eliminates the need for feeder gates.
In order to control mix delivery, the operator sets a speed rate
for each feeder that will maintain the desired mix level in the
left and right auger chambers.
Once the feeder speeds are set, the ratio of feeder speed to the
maximum auger speed is automatically maintained by the
machine controller, even though the propel rate may change as
the job progresses.
This ratio control capability is particularly helpful when
paving wider on one side of the machine than on the other.
Each feeder can be set at a specified speed to deliver the
proper amount of mix that is needed.
Outboard Feeder
Drive Motors
Right Feeder and
Auger Drive Pumps