Benchmark: new high-performance KHS palletizer with low-level pack feed
With its twin-column, high-performance Innopal PB1NF palletizer KHS is giving the beverage, food and non-food industries a new, single-station palletizing machine with level compensation which processes up to 500 layers per hour and has a low-level pack feed. For palletizers with a low infeed, this performance is absolutely unique.
The reason this machine can work so fast compared to others is that there is a cross conveyor built into the front end of the palletizer which can be opened. A barrier construction is used in place of the previous integrated bar construction. This means that after placing the last layer onto the pallet the cross conveyor no longer has to be raised and wait there until the finished pallet has been discharged from the system, as has been the case to date. Instead, the cross conveyor can travel down to table level before and the new layer picked up during the change of pallet which considerably increases the palletizing speed.
The Innopal PB1NF also has all the benefits associated with a low-level pack feed on palletizers. One of these is that unlike palletizers with a high infeed neither a platform nor inclined or spiral conveyors are needed which has the advantage of reducing investment costs and providing excellent accessibility and thus great ease of operation. Upstream of the Innopal PB1NF palletizer a KHS inline robot grouping can be used where two four-axis Innopal RK4 robots prepare the layers with the utmost precision. The big plus here is that pack manipulation elements, such as turning stations, are not needed. Besides cutting costs as a result, other definite benefits for the customer compared to conventional systems are extremely gentle pack handling, great flexibility, reduced space requirements, less maintenance and fast changeovers.
The Innopal PB1NF has been primarily designed to palletize one-way packs. Whether you want your cans, plastic containers or glass bottles packed in film, cartons or trays, it's all doable. As the palletizer acts as what's called a pusher plate machine, if required returnable packs can also be processed, such as high and low-wall plastic crates. The Innopal PB1NF can cope with layer weights of up to 200 kg; the block height including the pallet may be a maximum of two meters and pallets can be up to 1.3 x 1.3 m in size.
