Automatic Electric Plastic Bottle Bagging Machine Production Line

Application Description

The automatic bagging machine is designed to pack empty plastic containers into prepared plastic bags. The packing speed can be as much as 8,000 bottles per hour, which can improve the productivity greatly and reducing labor cost at the same time. This machine can bag plastic containers ranging from 200ml to 5L. It can be in line integrated with other bottle making equipments such as blow molding machine and labeling machine, fulfilling a full automatic production line for plastic containers.

Challenge

A machine used to plastic wrap newly molded empty bottles – to keep them clean during transport to filling stations – was using pneumatic motion control. Controlling the positions of the bottles prior to wrapping was more critical than speed and force. With the pneumatic system, bottles had a tendency to fall out of position from too much force. The result: all the bottles had to be removed and the process had to be restarted from the beginning. This was causing downtime in the production process, excess waste and loss of production capacity.

Tolomatic Solution

Working with the customer to maximize their current machine design, three B3W electric linear belt drive actuatorswere selected. To operate the main ram a B3W with a 3:1 reduction drive was selected to move the bottles into place. Two other B3W actuators with direct drives were used on right and left side pushers, to align the bottles in place prior to wrapping. The customer was also able to use the motor of their choice with the Tolomatic Your Motor Hereprogram. By using this solution, fast motion could be employed to position bottles, slowed down to pack bottles in place, and accelerated again for bagging.

Customer Benefit

• Quick, accurate, repeatable lane adjustments for infinite bottle sizes
• Elimination of manual labor during product changeover
• Eliminate downtime due to tipping bottles
• Elimination of costly air and potential leaks across the plant
• Increase productivity
• Ensure the cleanliness of the product

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