Infeed

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Reject Side Belts: The Adjustable Reject Side Belt (MT902) and Fixed Reject Side Belt (MT905) have an opening beneath them which will allow cartons which come in the wrong orientation to drop out into a reject chute and be rejected from the system. These side belts are driven with a VFD for speed control. The Reject Side belts will run at a speed which will meter the cartons into the machine at the proper rate. This rate is a recipe-specific speed

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Infeed Conveyor: The cartons of product transfer onto the Infeed Conveyor (MT915) and are conveyed into the side belts, lying flat with the wide dimension leading on a high friction metering conveyor belt. This conveyor is driven with a VFD for speed control. The speed of the conveyor is a little faster than the reject side belts to pull a small gap between cartons

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Side Belts: Downstream of the Infeed Conveyor, the cartons are run through the Side Belts, made up of the Adjustable Side Belt (MT1002) and Fixed Side Belt (MT1006). These side belts are driven with a VFD for speed control. The Side Belts run faster than the Infeed Conveyor so that a gap is pulled between each carton. The Side Belts are intended to go about two to three times the speed of the Infeed Conveyor. The gapped cartons pass by a photo eye for counting

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Spatula: A servo driven Spatula (SM02) transfers each carton into its correct position of the top layer in the Downstacker. As the first carton of a layer is being transferred, the spatula extends out to ensure that the leading edge of the carton transfers over the seam between the two cartons of the previous layer below. The spatula then retracts while or before the second carton of that layer enters the Downstacker