Hesitating Cartoner - Frozen Food

Installation Elements

• Langen Hesitating Cartoner; continuous motion drive with dwell stations for product loading.



• Langen Horizontal Servopak collates wrapped frozen food products.



• This system handles both corrugated as well as chipboard cartons.



• Infeed features product-count verification and unique alternating product sweep.

Product

• Various frozen food products: pizzas, French bread and garlic bread.

Product Configuration

• Three different products are packaged into seven different cartons in 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9 count formats.

Method of Operation

• The product is fed from the customer’s conveyor in a single lane with the narrow dimension leading onto the Langen infeed conveyor.



• The "Non-synchronized" HSP receives the product and creates the collation pattern determined by the product currently in production.



• The HSP accumulates several carton loads between infeed and discharge areas. The discharge end moves on a multi-pitch index programmable cycle and will come to a dwell position as each collation of products arrive at the loading station.



• Simultaneously carton blanks are picked from the horizontal magazine by vacuum with a continuous motion rotary head feeder and positioned on the vacuum cups of the pre-break system. The carton is partially opened and then placed in the carton conveyor flights and the flaps held open with guide rails.



• The collation is inserted into the carton horizontally. The minor end flaps are closed after loading and hot melt adhesive applied from a Nordson Hot Melt system. The major flaps are ploughed down and sealed.



• An overhead sweep transfers the finished product to a discharge conveyor.