CONTINUOUS FLOW SYSTEM FOR MIXING AND PROCESSING BULK INGREDIENTS

A system for combining, mixing, and further processing ingredients to produce a specified weight of a composition in accordance with a specified recipe. The ingredients are discharged from hoppers into a central conveyor. Each hopper operates under control of a hopper controller that regulates the discharge rate and controls refilling of its associated hopper. The ingredients are mixed in the central conveyor as they are transferred to a processing device, such as a mill or roaster, and then discharged from the processing device into a network of conveyors for transfer to another location for further handling. The system operates under the control of a central controller which regulates the discharge rates of the various ingredients to optimize the feedrate to the processing device. The central controller also monitors the weight of the processed product in a production run and compares it with the specified total weight for the run in order to shut down the system when the specified total weight has been processed.