Tumbler Sieve Machine– Efficient Screening Solution for Powder & Granules

Our tumbler sieve provides precise powder and granule screening, designed to improve production efficiency across a wide range of industries. Its gentle circular motion ensures high-quality separation without damaging delicate particles, making it ideal for pharmaceuticals, food processing, chemicals, and minerals. With multi-layer sieving options, adjustable vibration settings, and durable stainless steel construction, it delivers reliable performance with low maintenance and minimal noise. Whether you need consistent particle classification or faster processing capacity, our tumbler sieve offers a flexible, customizable solution to meet your production requirements while enhancing overall efficiency.

  • Model: YBS-1000/1200/1600/2000/2200/2600
  • Number of tiers: 1–5
  • Power: 1.5–5.5 kW
  • Material: Carbon steel, SUS304, SUS316L
  • Voltage: Customizable
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What is Tumbler Sieve Machine?

The Tumbler Sieve Machine is a versatile, high-efficiency, state-of-the-art screening machine designed to meet the demands of high-throughput, high-precision screening. It features a unique structure with a circular screening surface and employs a tumbling motion for screening. This tumbler screen equipment is widely used across various industries, such as food, chemical, and pharmaceutical, and is suitable for screening fine and ultra-fine powders and granular materials. It is particularly well-suited for screening processes involving difficult-to-handle materials, challenging screening tasks, and high-throughput applications.

Tumbler sieve
Tumbler sieve

How Does a Tumbler Sieve Work?

The operating principle of the Tumbler sieve primarily relies on its unique mode of vibration—specifically, a combination of helical motion and three-dimensional tumbling motion.

Helical Motion

By utilizing an exciter with an adjustable eccentricity, the Tumbler sieve generates a non-linear, three-dimensional movement. This motion causes the material to follow a helical trajectory across the screen surface—a composite movement resulting from the superposition of radial displacement and circular motion. This helical motion facilitates the uniform distribution of material across the screen and promotes the passage of fine particles through the mesh apertures.

Three-Dimensional Tumbling Motion

The material simultaneously undergoes both horizontal and throwing motions across the screen surface; this three-dimensional tumbling action ensures the uniform dispersion of the material as it propagates helically along the screen. During this tumbling process, fine particles are more readily able to pass through the mesh apertures, while larger particles remain on the screen surface, thereby achieving the desired screening separation.The process is integrated with a screw conveyor to form a combined screening and conveying production line.

Features

1. High Screening Precision

Acceleration is controlled within the 2–3g range, simulating the manual sifting motion; this makes it ideal for the fine classification of materials ranging from 20 to 500 mesh, achieving a precision rate of over 95%.

2. Extended Screen Lifespan

Designed with non-violent vibration, the system minimizes wire fatigue, resulting in a service life that is 1 to 2 times longer than that of standard vibrating screens.

3. Low Screen Clogging Rate

The composite motion is combined with screen-cleaning mechanisms—such as ultrasonic systems, bouncing balls, and brushes—making it highly effective for processing sticky or easily agglomerating materials (e.g., pharmaceutical powders, flour, and metal powders).

4.Flexible Classification

Supports 1 to 6 levels of separation with an adjustable configuration of 1 to 5 layers, thereby simultaneously meeting production requirements for products of multiple specifications.

5. Convenient Screen Replacement

Equipped with a quick-clamping mechanism, certain models allow for screen replacement to be completed within just 30 minutes, thereby minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment utilization.

6. Fully Enclosed Structure

Prevents dust dispersion during the screening process to protect the working environment, while maintaining a noise level of less than 40 decibels.

Technical Specifications

ModelDiameter (mm)Screening Area (m²)Air Volume Requirement (m³)Max Screening LayersPower Consumption (kW)
YBS 100010400.711.251.5
YBS 120012501.111.652.2
YBS 160015801.832.552.2 / 4
YBS 200018802.62452.2 / 4
YBS 220021003.464.8453 / 4
YBS 260026505.31755.5

Material Applications

Powdered Materials

Ideal for fine powders such as cement, lime, food(sugar sifter shaker), and pharmaceuticals, ensuring precise screening and guaranteeing uniform, pure material.

Solid-Liquid Mixtures

Rapidly separates solid and liquid impurities from chemical(detergent powder screening machine), food, and pharmaceutical solutions, suitable for applications such as wastewater purification and fruit juice filtration.

Sticky Materials

Effortlessly handles sticky materials like wet coal, slurry, and clay, minimizing screen clogging and maximizing screening efficiency.

Fragile materials

Gentle screening reduces breakage of glass, ceramics, and other fragile raw materials, preserving the quality of the finished product.

Fibrous materials

When paired with compatible screens, it efficiently screens fibrous raw materials such as wood chips, pulp, and cotton.

Mixed materials

Capable of precisely screening and grading multi-component materials—such as compound fertilizers,cosmetics(cosmetics powder sieving machine) and blended foods—based on their specific properties.

MaterialsMesh (mesh count/mm)Production Capacity (kg/hour)Model
Rubber powder24 mesh1000YBS-2000-1S
Chili seeds4 mm500YBS-1000-1S
Petroleum coke powder110–120 mesh3000YBS-1600-2S
Quartz sand40/60 mesh4500YBS-2200-2P
Animal feed40/80 mesh2200YBS-1600-2S
Fertilizer2 mm10000YBS-2600-1P

Custom Solutions

Our Tumbler Sieve can be customized—including voltage, screen size, number of layers, material construction, and conveying systems—to suit specific production volumes, material characteristics, and facility requirements. Furthermore, it features specialized screen-cleaning mechanisms designed to accommodate various types of materials, thereby ensuring the highly efficient screening of both powders and granules.

Bouncing Ball Cleaning: Most Granular Materials

Bouncing balls are positioned between the perforated plate and the screen frame; driven by the motion of the gyratory sifter, these balls continuously strike the screen frame to clear the mesh.

Ultrasonic Cleaning: Easily Agglomerating, Clumping, or Highly Adsorptive Ultrafine Powders

The ultrasonic cleaning method causes material adhering to the screen surface to become suspended, thereby inhibiting factors that cause screen clogging—such as adhesion, friction, and static accumulation.

Rotary Brush Device: Spherical, Crystalline, and Brittle Materials

The rotary brush mechanism cleans the gyratory sifter by utilizing brushes positioned beneath the screen to rotate and sweep the mesh surface.

  • Bouncing ball
    Bouncing ball
  • cylinder
    cylinder
  • Motor
    Motor
  • Rotary brush
    Rotary brush
  • Space frame
    Space frame
  • Ultrasonic
    Ultrasonic

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Tumbler sieve Case

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FAQs

It is suitable for both powdered and granular materials—such as food products, spices, chemical powders, pharmaceutical granules, and mineral particles—and is particularly well-suited for fragile or fine materials.

Capacity varies depending on material properties, mesh count, and the number of layers; it can be flexibly customized to range from tens of kilograms per hour up to several tons per hour.

The equipment features a simple design that facilitates easy cleaning. Its gentle vibration minimizes screen wear, making routine maintenance straightforward and resulting in minimal downtime.

By adjusting the mesh count and vibration parameters, fine classification ranging from 20 to 500 mesh can be achieved, with a classification accuracy exceeding 95%.

Parameters such as voltage, screen dimensions, number of layers, material construction, conveying systems, and overall physical dimensions can be customized to meet the specific production requirements and industrial environments of various applications.

Through multi-layer screening, adjustable amplitude, and smooth vibratory motion, it achieves rapid and uniform material classification. This process reduces the need for secondary screening and prevents screen clogging, thereby boosting overall production capacity.

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