MEYPACK VP 451 tray and wrap-around packaging machine
Fully
automatic machine for packing beverage cans into trays and wrap-around
cartons.
Products and formats:
- 0.33-litre cans, Ø 66 x 115
mm, loose and in four-packs
- 0.5-litre cans, Ø 66 x 168 mm,
loose and in four-packs
Pack configurations for both can
formats:
- 4 x 6 loose cans in a wrap-around carton or tray
-
3 x 4 loose cans in a wrap-around carton
- 2 x 3 four-packs in a
tray
Output:
- Nominal output: 16,000 cans/h
- Packaging
output: 12 or 24 packs/min, including a 5% capacity
reserve
Product handling:
- Multi-lane bulk product
infeed
- Four-packs fed transversely on two lanes, with the
openings facing sideways
- Infeed height: approx. 1,150 mm ± 50
mm
- Outfeed height: approx. 650 mm ± 50 mm
- Trays and
wrap-around cartons leave the machine broad side leading
Operating
principle:
The products are fed continuously in multiple rows,
distributed evenly into the lanes of the infeed conveyor using the
accumulation principle, and grouped into the required formation. At
the same time, a flat tray or wrap-around blank is removed from the
magazine and positioned below the grouping station. The servo-driven
lowering station receives the product formation and blank and folds
the blank tightly around the products. A servo-driven indexing chain
then conveys the pre-folded pack through the gluing and compression
stations. The finished pack is transferred to the downstream conveyor
system via a gravity roller conveyor.
Grouped-pack size
range:
- Length: 200–400 mm
- Width: 120–300 mm
-
Height: 80–200 mm
- Tray height: 40–200 mm
Packaging
material and magazine:
- Suitable for almost all commercially
available corrugated-board grades, final design subject to approval by
MEYPACK
- Blank length: 360–1,250 mm
- Blank width:
300–700 mm
- Magazine capacity: approx. 150 blanks or approx.
400 mm stack height for B-flute board
- Flat blanks are separated
by vacuum cups and positioned by a belt conveyor
- Hot-melt
adhesive: commercially available grades approved by the adhesive-unit
manufacturer, final design subject to approval by
MEYPACK
Utilities:
- Electrical supply: 3 x 400 V AC, 50 Hz,
with neutral and protective conductor, permissible long-term voltage
fluctuation ± 5%
- Control voltage: 24 V DC
- Compressed air:
6 bar, 1/2-inch connection, clean and free from foreign matter, gases
and oils
Operation and format change:
- The machine can be
monitored by one operator while performing another task
- Operator
side can be arranged on the right or left when viewed in the outfeed
direction
- Fast, repeatable format changes through zero-line
design and automatic indexing-chain adjustment
- Settings
documented in product-specific format lists, clearly assigned and
marked change parts
Basic machine and components:
- Weight:
approx. 3,500 kg
- Finish: black grey RAL 7021
- Pneumatics:
Festo
- Hot-melt unit: Nordson Pro Blue
- Drives: SEW,
protection class IP55
- Control system: Siemens S7
- Operator
interface: Siemens Touch Panel TP 1500
- Electrical design in
accordance with MEYPACK standard electrical equipment specification E
2017
Included options:
- Additional tray takeaway conveyor for
manual palletising
- Painted-steel roller conveyor with integrated
corner transfer, nominal width 350 mm, length approx. 1,100 mm
-
Two-lane transfer unit with modular belt chain, adjustable side guides
on one side and stainless-steel cable duct
- Broadband VPN router
for remote machine maintenance
- Swivel arm for the control
panel
- Control cabinet mounted on the machine
Technical data
according to the available MEYPACK machine description.