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Syntegon is launching a new, highly flexible discharge station for round biscuits, crackers and biscuits. Belt chutes reduce mechanical stress and minimise product loss through gentle handling.
Syntegon launches the Distribution Continuous Slide (DCS), a new, highly flexible discharge station for round biscuits, crackers and biscuits. The modular discharge system consists of one or more stations arranged one behind the other. These are equipped with belt slides for particularly gentle handling, which minimise mechanical stress and thus reduce product breakage and loss.
For better pack style flexibility, the Syntegon DCS distributes biscuits onto packaging branches and then packs them flat or on edge for pile, slug or tray packaging. The casing-free design of the system also provides operators with an unrestricted process overview, safe accessibility and easy cleaning.
Gently divide the product flow using belt chutes
The biscuits, biscuits and crackers are transferred from the cooling belt and continuously distributed to the packaging branches. The Syntegon DCS uses belt chutes running orthogonally to the conveyor belt for this purpose. The advantage of this is that the products glide over the belts and are not subjected to any mechanical stress as they are not pushed or dropped, which significantly reduces product loss. This ensures efficiency gains, especially when handling particularly sensitive product variants.
The higher the speed of the belt chute, the more biscuits the DCS transfers to downstream packaging branches. Another belt chute arranges the straight product flow in an S-shape on the individual packaging branches. This arrangement ensures that the biscuits and crackers are distributed across the entire width of the belt and do not wedge or overlap. Instead, a homogeneous product accumulation is created, which ensures a constant feed to the packaging machine.
Our aim was to develop an innovative and product-friendly system that would equip food companies for future challenges. With the DCS discharge station, we have succeeded, as our first customers have confirmed - and a patent for the technology has also been applied for.“
Flexibility for formats and changing production output
The design of the Syntegon DCS also ensures high format flexibility: no format parts are installed in the discharge station. For a format change, it is therefore sufficient to change the belt speeds via the HMI module and save them as a new format. With flat feeders, baffle belts arrange the products in columns and feed them to the packaging machine as a constant product flow. With upright handling, the products are gently transported to the packaging branch in ZF vibratory chutes by vibration.
The DCS discharge station requires shorter vibrating chute lengths than conventional solutions in order to achieve the same storage times - another important layout and cost advantage. Manufacturers can also add further DCS stations to the discharge system on a modular basis. In this way, larger production volumes can be handled if the furnace capacity is subsequently expanded.
Source: Syntegon
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