Booster / extractor station

The booster/extractor station can be used for different purposes. As preferred, the airfeed can be used as intake, or the air outlet can be used as flow-amplifier.

The engineer-designed booster/extractor station keeps the labour air stream and cooling air stream apart. That enables the cooling air to flow without impediment even when the intake hose is blocked or the air outlet is completely sealed. That excludes the possibility of the blower being damaged by over-heating or dirt.

Examples of applications:

- Blow-in machines can operate with increased power when working on high ceilings, with long hoses or thick insulating material

- It can absorb loose insulating material left-overs and other materials
- It ventilates turned nozzles when modified elements are used which are airtight and covered with material which is easily damaged (such as plasterboard)

To achieve good blow-in results the air volume and air pressure must be sufficient for every blow-in situation. When the blow-in machine does not perform optimally, because of insufficient pressure or air volume, the booster/extractor station could be used to improve the performance of the machine: Extra air injected either in front of, or behind the cell-wheel lock of the machine, will substantially improve the performance. This can be crucial in the following circumstances:

- when long hose connections are used
- with high ceilings
- when building elements to be filled are very big

The typical way to connect, is to attach the auxiliary air-inlet of the booster/extractor station to the material stream of the blow-in machine. In addition, a Y-piece is built in after the cell-wheel lock of the machine to which the extra air is then connected.

The booster/extractor station is controlled electrically with the blow-in machine. In that way undesirable situations are avoided, such as that material flows to the booster, or that it flows back to the machine.

When blowing in loose insulating materials an extraction device can be advantageous in several situations:

- When sucking in loose insulating material leftovers
- When siphoning off, or reducing the volume of loose insulating material in a building section previously filled with the material
- For cleaning surfaces which have to be blown up

In these situations the booster/extractor station could be used together with an intake drum. For that purpose, the intake airstream is connected to the intake drum.  An intake hose, connected to an intake drum, siphons the intake material into a taped canvas bag. Depending on the size of the intake drum and the taped canvas bag, the sucked in material is compacted. The very reasonably priced taped canvas bags are well-suited for transporting and storing the siphoned materials.

In some situations the passive ventilation of turned nozzles is not enough to prevent a bulging of, or even damage to the planking of the column walls. Here the booster/extractor station could be introduced to lower the excessive pressure which is present during the blow-in procedure.

To connect, the booster/extractor station is operated in the siphon mode and controlled with the master-slave of the blow-in machine.

Broschure / Technical specification sheet of booster/extractor station