Design And Principle Of Operation; Principle Of Operation - RoboLabs Grand Robopop 220 User Manual

2 Design and principle of operation

2.1 Principle of operation

The machine and its main parts are represented on Fig.1. Principle of operation is the following.
Turbine (5) creates airflow circulating through the chamber (3), then to heating elements
area (6), and then back to the turbine. The direction of airflow is shown in red arrows.
Corn kernels are supplied from the corn bin with feeder (4) in the chamber.
Once popped, popcorn is being blown out of the chamber through the output port (1).
Operator uses control panel (2) to control the machine operation.
Figure 1: Main components
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