EK4
Fastest wrapping machine available for preformed products in double twist wrap. The continuous motion principle of the machine enables efficient and reliable high-performance wrapping of mass production.
Product Characteristics
Folding type
- Double Twist
Products
- products suitable for plate feeding
- Hard Candy (with or without center-filling)
- Eclair
- Toffees
Product dimensions
- Length: 16 – 40 mm
- Width: 12 – 25 mm
- Height: 6 – 20 mm
disc shaped products
- Height: 6 – 20 mm
- Ø 13 – 28 mm
- Special design up to diameter: 33 mm
ball shaped products
- Ø 17 – 23 mm
- Special design up to diameter: 28 mm
Output
- Up to 2300 products/min
Technical Data
Utilities
- Connected load: 15 kVA
- Compressed air consumption: 2m³/h; 600 kPa
Measurements
Machine
- Length: 2860 mm / 3550 mm with inner wrapper
- Width: 2775 mm
- Height: 1870 mm
Switch cabinet:
- Length: 1200 mm
- Width: 500 mm
- Height: 1960 mm
Weight
Machine:
- 3000 kg without inner wrapper
- 3300 kg with inner wrapper
Switch cabinet:
- 390 kg
Wrapping material
- wax paper
- cellophane
- polypropylene
- polyethylene
Material dimensions
- Reel diameter: Up to 400 mm
- Reel width: Up to 120 mm
- Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm
Equipment & Options
Special features
- A particularly gentle handling of the products is guaranteed by the continuous motion principle
- highly efficient feeding system with integrated sorting station to eliminate sugar dust, Chips and broken pieces
- Servo control with PLC functions
- Air support to allow the use of PP foils
- Saving of wrapping material by “no product – no paper” -device
- Automatic splicer to change wrapping material reels without stopping the machine
- Ejection of spliced, mal-registered and unwrapped products
- Infinitely variable adjustment of the Twist gripper oscillation depending on the wrapping material quality
- Adjustment of the twisting angle in three steps (1,1; 1,6; 2,1 rotations)
- Different executions of the twist grippers for different wrapping materials
- Servo-driven wrapping material feed rollers, wrapping material knife and material reels
- Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
- Discharge conveyor
- All electrical and electronic components are located in a separate switch cabinet
- Excellent accessibility for operation, maintenance and cleaning purposes
- Easy operation due to the touch screen
- Due to the automatic operation, several machines can be handled by one operator
- System of protection: IP 54
Combinations
- Beside manual feeding, the machine can be directly synchronized to the production line by means of a Theegarten-Pactec feeding system.
Product Brochure
EK4_ENG_16_1_web.pdf