B1-IMA Cartoner - Ice Cream Cones

Installation Elements

• Langen B1 Intermittent Motion Autoload Cartoner.



• Custom designed infeed automatically sorts and collates product according to pack pattern and product type.



• DVT Vision System identifies product type by colour.



• Langen integration of all controls on an AB platform.



• 8’ extended carton magazine.



• Servo control of indexing motions.
  

Product

• Ice cream cones.

Product Configuration

• Four different flavours of product delivered in two sizes of wrapped slugs.



• Products are cartoned according to five pack patterns in either single or double layer.

Method of Operation

• Random flavours of product are delivered to the indexing servo-controlled conveyor of the infeed system at 120 ppm (one slug of product per flight). Flavours are identified using a DVT Vision System integrated with the PLC.



• Product is indexed and sorted by flavour into nine lanes of accumulating conveyors. Sorting is determined by the carton pack pattern and product type being run.



• Once the desired pack pattern has accumulated, three sets of 2 or 3 slugs are released onto a speed-up belt and into the buckets of the servo-controlled collation belt. Here a double stack of product can be created using an overhead vacuum pick and place unit.



• An air-actuated stripper transfers three product collations horizontally into three waiting cartons.



• Carton blanks are picked from the 8’ extended carton magazine by vacuum with a continuous motion two-head rotary feeder. The carton is placed in the carton conveyor lugs and the flaps held open with guide rails.



• After loading, both minor and major carton flaps are closed and sealed with hot melt glue from a Nordson hot melt system. Cartons pass through an open flap detect/reject station prior to being discharged from the machine.