Merge conveyor KAIM-60

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System Highlights • Can achieve speeds of up to 120 PPM • Provides interposing delivery of pouches from a product filling station to a ‘pouch-in-a-box’ cartoner • Captures improperly gapped product and re-releases it into a merge section, providing the required gap at merge discharge • Allows product to pass from the upstream to the downstream modules only when a photoeye indicates that the module immediately downstream is empty Kraken’s KAIM-60 system provides interposing delivery of pouches from a product filling station to a ‘pouch-in-a-box’ cartoner. The KAIM-60 accepts filled, open, narrow-edge-leading pouches from the upstream tube handling/conveying system. The pouches are conveyed to the Pouch-in-Box Cartoner via two parallel 30 PPM streams (together, a 60 PPM rate). The system conveys the cartons from the Tube Handling to the Index and Merge Unit via a lower conveyor, where staging occurs to match carton delivery to merged pouch delivery (number of pouches merged depends on number of pouches to pack into each carton). The merged pouches are packed to the carton, which then shuttles downstream to the carton top close system. The benefit of a Product Merge system is this: upstream systems may not deliver product in a repeatable, gapped format. KAIM-60 provides that missing staging by capturing improperly gapped product and re-releasing it into a merge section, providing the required gap at merge discharge. The three primary components of the KAIM-60 are: 1. Conveying System 2. 2 Lane x 4 Stage Indexing Module 3. Merge Conveyor Module