Compact Product Flow Regulator
This system may be used for both packaged and unpackaged products: Chocolate tablets and bars, fruit and cereal bars, biscuits, bakery products, deep frozen food and many more foodstuffs, luxury food and stimulants, pharmaceutical products and non-food articles. Depending on its position within the line, the product flow regulator adopts various tasks next to simple buffer functions: Regulations of the product flow, cooling or heating of the products, discharge of an oven, feeding packaging legs, synchronization and grouping of products or the transfer of the products to another production level.
The product flow regulator functions according to the FIFO principle “First-In – First-Out”. The buffer capacity is variable and the cycle time reduced to a minimum given low capacity utilization. The gondolas are suspended in parallel chain loops on both sides. Loading / uploading the rows can be executed at the different speeds and may be done frontally or laterally. Servo motors ensure a gently transport. Stabilization functions achieve excellent output even complex products. This system is particularly suited for high ceilings and takes up very little floor space.
Benefits
- May be installed in rooms with less than 3000 mm room height – no costly reconstruction work.
- Space-saving PFR
- High loading and unloading performance
- Dimensioned and optimized in accordance with specific product properties.
- Minimum maintenance requirements and time-saving cleaning
- Gondolas may be removed from and re-inserted into the PFR during production for cleaning purposes (model DC only)
- Gondolas may be simply removed from the PFR
- Gondolas may be transferred to the cleaning facility by a specially designed trolley
- Good accessibility for maintenance and cleaning
- Less soiling due to hygienic design
- Safe and easy handling of the PFR
Special features
- By using a PFR even the rearmost packaging machines of a production line can be fed continuously and at maximum speed.
- There is no overflow at the end of the line, avoiding any reworking and waste.
- Overall line performance is improved as packaging branches served by the PFR achieve higher output levels compared to a station-based solution.
- In the event of performance variations of the packaging machines the products are kept in an intermediate buffer; this avoids any overflow.
- Using appropriate additional functions, the products may be cooled or warmed over a given storage period. Product regulation or storage
- High performance
- Low room height
- In feed to 1-3 packaging branches
- FIFO principle
Options
- Head of line with aligning unit, metal detector and FSU with breakage ejection
- SEL Fast unloading
- Bypass
- Additional functions, e.g. cooling or heating
- Crumb plates
- Row duplication in front of PFR
Technical Data
| Technical Details | |
| Product dimensions: | Length: 30 – 350 mm , height: 5 – 300 mm |
| Storage capacity | up to 1200 rows |
| Loading: | up to 130 rows / min (DC model) up to 150 rows / min (SC model)mainly frontal up to 120 rows / min |
| Uploading: | lateral: single or dual exit lateral triple exit (model DC only) |
| Shelf widths: | up to 1600 mm |
| Electrical Data | |
| Standard power supply: | 3N ~ 400 VAC |
| Power supply frequency: | 50 or 60 Hz |
| Control circuit: | 24 VDC |
Not: All maximums may not apply on the same carton maximum and minimum sizes shown should be used as guide only and must be confirmed by our firm’s technical department
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