Secondary Product Handling: Collators
This infeed utilises our dual race track (DRT) and single (SRT) technology. Individual products or a combination are driven into pockets mounted onto one or two servo-driven fast indexing turbo trains. The pockets advance (indexing) as they are filled, and when the required amount is present, that train of pockets will transfer to the carton loading position. A servo-driven pusher will transfer the products from the DRT onto a product positioner that separates the products into the required collations and elevates them to the correct pitch of the cartoner infeed. A second servo pusher transfers these products into the cartoner inf