Fully-automatic Collators
Bradman Lake has been at the forefront of continuous motion product merging and collating. Lane balancing is achieved by advanced dynamic speed control and the use of pressure-less product queues.
The product can be collated in a side by side or stacked format without the need for intermittent mechanical motion.
Bradman Lake’s Race Track technology is used to create either ‘flat-pack’ or ‘on-edge’ collations.
The LC is designed to interface with a product feeder, taking individual products and collating them into single or multiple stacks before flow wrapping on the horizontal flow wrapper.
Product is presented by primary infeed carriers, then positioned onto the various support shelves by a servo-controlled pivoting ramp. When the required collation is achieved, the complete collation(s) is transferred into the main infeed of the horizontal flow wrapper by a servo-controlled overhead transfer. It is possible to run individual products through the unit simply by deactivating the ramp mechanism.
The SBS is designed to interface with a Phase Feeder, taking individual products and collating them into pairs in a “side by side” format, before flow wrapping them on a horizontal flow wrapper.
Bradman Lake has been at the forefront of continuous motion product merging for more demanding, higher speed applications, using twin stacked shuttle phase feeders. The product is collated in a side by side or stacked format without the need for intermittent mechanical motion. The system can be fed by either Bradman Lake’s Automatic Distribution System (ADS) or twin Product Orientation Feeder (POF). Lane balancing is achieved by dynamic speed control and the use of pressure-less product queues which are held within each shuttling system.
The Cascade Loader comprises a system of infeed conveyors that feed product into a rotary pocket. The machine’s function is to collate single or multiple products and synchronise their placement into the infeed pockets of an automatic horizontal flow wrapper or bagger.
The cascade loader includes an abort system to reject incorrect products.
Single or multiple cascade loaders can be interfaced to a single horizontal wrapper’s infeed or bagger’s infeed.
This inline automatic infeed receives products at random and uses a series of servo-controlled belts to correct the random position of each product relative to the target pocket of the cartoner’s infeed conveyor. The final transfer is aided by an overhead paddle. The product would normally be presented to the smart belts with the wide edge leading. Right-angle machines are available.
