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Aug·er

(awg'ĕr),
Pierre-Victor, French physicist, 1899-1993. See: Auger electron.

auger

A screw conveyor which is used to distribute paving material transversely ahead of the screed conveyor.
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The top stuffer includes a stainless steel hopper with three feed openings, a stainless steel single screw auger with removable stirrer arm and a variable speed drive.
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With this system a small, continuous stream of sand is withdrawn by a screw auger.
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Hard-to-feed material can be introduced either by ram stuffer or screw auger to force-feed materials at the extruder throat, or through a side-arm addition where the material is metered into the molten polymer stream beyond the extruder's melting section.
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