With the TLM Comfort Feeder, presented at this year’s interpack for the first time, Schubert has developed a new, extremely compact solution to automate the infeed of carton blanks to the packaging machine. The underlying idea is a slim high-performance machine concept in the smallest possible space, which saves manufacturers money and reduces the workload on production staff
Using a Schubert bar packer as an example, the TLM Comfort Feeder demonstrates the many advantages of the recently developed feeder directly from the pallet when packing into cartons: The entire process, from the removal of the flat blanks to the erected packaging, is automated and very compactly integrated into a single sub-machine. It is seamlessly connected to the downstream packaging process, for example via Transmodul, belt or vacuum conveyor, depending on requirements. The TLM Comfort Feeder is the logical extension of Schubert’s signature concept of a fully integrated and controlled packaging process. With single-lane processing of each carton blank, the performance of the machine-integrated robots is ideally used so that a cycle rate of 60 packs per minute can be achieved. At the same time, the infeed and erecting process remains very lean, which considerably reduces the size and weight of the robot tools and the number of glue nozzles required to glue the blanks
For feeding, the pallet with all the blank sheets is simply placed into the machine. The blanks are pre-cut and only connected at a few predetermined breaking points to form a sheet.