Bradman Lake understands that the carton erector is in many cases the heart of the packaging line and that the equipment must function to maximum efficiency at all times. Any carton which is not formed correctly may have downstream loading and closing problems which affect the overall lines performance. Bradman Lake has recognized this issue due to many years of supplying erectors and formers, loaders and closing systems to handle an exhaustive array of products to all industry sectors.
The high speed, servo driven Super HS/L and Super HS/G Carton/Tray Erector with indirect blank feeding, erects a wide variety of folding cartons made of solid or corrugated board.
Standard Features:
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The Super HS/L Speeds up to 75 cartons per minute on a single head, 150 cartons per minute on a double head and 210 cartons per minute on a triple head, depending on carton size.
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Movement transmission by synchronous motors and linear guides only.
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Each motion separately driven.
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Low maintenance.
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Solid framework and lower guards made of stainless steel.
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Upper guards made of polycarbonate with safety switches.
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Indirect blank feeding.
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The machine control system is easily accessed via a touch-screen.
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Quick change devices for magazine, tooling and plunger.
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Low mounted magazine, easy to fill.
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Motorized carton magazine.
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A wide range of optional features are available to enable the machine to be readily adapted to meet the customer specific requirements, eg. complete ‘washdown’ specification.
Machine operation
Flat carton blanks are stacked in a low-level carton hopper. Cartons are extracted from the hopper by vacuum cups mounted on reciprocating bar fed by either Venturi vacuum source or an optional electric vacuum pump. The carton blanks are placed on a lugged conveyor and shuttled forward. Simultaneously a plunger descends and pushes the carton blank down through the tooling, which automatically engages and locks or glues the 4 corners of the carton base. The carton is then ejected down onto a carton takeaway conveyor system(quoted separately as an optional feature).
