Extending/Retracting
Nose Conveyor for collation/Grouping
Customer Requirement:
Counter/stacker
to collate pairs of thin, flat bread and arrange in stacks of 8
for bagging in retail pack.
Operate
at 65+ pairs per minute.
AHP
solution:
Design
and construct a 3 axis servo
controlled take off grouping machine incorporating
a telescopic or extending/retracting nose conveyor, with a
stacking platform beneath to hold collation
until ready for release onto
packing line. By
means of the digital axis used in the machine , an additional benefit
has been to enable the cut lengths of the product to be measured and
rejected if over or under sized.
To
date 5 of these systems have been supplied
to the one client in Victoria, Australia.
This product grouping machine
is adaptable to a number of other tasks, such as collation of cartons
in various formats, placing dough products onto baking trays,
transferring product onto production lines at right angles,
etc.
A further development in
the processing line, has been to add another AHP designed bag
loading machine, to load these collated flat breads into
pre-made bags.
Contact
us to discuss possible applications, or for
a solution to your automation requirement.
Horizontal
Carton Tray packer
Customer
Requirement:
construct
concept prototypes to pack initially 2 biscuit types on edge
simultaneously into an open, light film plastic tray, and then to
construct a part full scale system to pack up to 8 different biscuit
types on edge into thin thermoformed tray at 25 cycles per minute.
The
new system was a proof of principle development to automate the
current manual process.
AHP
Solution:
Modular
packing heads with removable tooling for each biscuit type were
mounted onto a
packing platform with storage bin handling systems into and out of
the system. Heads were
mounted over an indexing conveyor which transported the trays to each
packing location.
System operated at 25 trays per minute, although current advancements
will allow
the design to operate now at 30+ per head per minute. Thus a three
row system can
be constructed to operate at 100 trays per minute.
This system
can be adapted to fill pockets at 90° to each other as well as to do
some pile packing
into pockets, if required.
This
system was installed in Victoria, Australia.
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