System Highlights
• 110 frozen, wrapped PPM
• Up to 220 products/min achievable when multiple infeed system lanes are configured
• 3-axis system (per infeed lane)
• Compact transfer footprint space 3’ X 3’ X 5’ (based on cartoner bucket infeed elevation)
• Two-stage infeed conveyor assembly providing consistent product delivery and staging to collation area
• Three-stage collation gate array providing a range of package counts per customer requirements (2–6 count)
• Integral product tamping and squaring mechanisms to ensure repeatable package transfer
• Pneumatic product transfer shock containment to prevent bounce back during transfer
• Operator interface for product selection, system controls, and alarm display
• Controls and operator interface configured to customer standards
Kraken Automation’s KSI3T-110 Infeed and 3-Stage Collation/Transfer System is a versatile system engineered to deliver, pre-collate, and transfer frozen wrapped product synchronously to a cartoner infeed system.
Each Product Infeed/Collation/Transfer System can achieve speeds of 110 infeed products per minute, or 220 per minute on a single cartoning machine configured with two infeed and collating/transfer lanes.
Using a vertical array of high-speed, motion-controlled collation gates, frozen wrapped products can be gradually collated and squared to a given pack format in counts ranging from 2-6 packets. The specified number of packets, based on product thickness and customer requirements, is prepared for synchronous transfer to a continuous motion packaging system (cartoner).