EK3
High-speed wrapping machine for preformed products in double twist. The continuous motion principle of the machine enables efficient and reliable high-performance wrapping of mass production.
Product Characteristics
Folding type
- Double Twist
- Protected Twist
Products
- Products suitable for plate feeding
- Hard Candys (with or without center-filling)
- Eclair
- Toffees
Product dimensions
- Length: 16 – 40 mm
- Width: 12 – 25 mm
- Height: 6 – 20 mm
Disc shape products
- Ø 13 – 28 mm
- Special design up to diameter: 33 mm
- Height: 6 – 20 mm
Ball shaped products
- Ø 17 – 23 mm
Output
- Up to 1800 products/min
Technical Data
Utilities
- Connected load: 13 kVA
- Compressed air consumption: 2m³/h; 600 kPa
Measurements
Machine:
- Length: 3080 mm
- Width: 2730 mm
- Height: 1880 mm
Switch cabinet:
- Length: 1200 mm
- Width: 500 mm
- Height: 1960 mm
Weight
Machine:
- 2250 kg without inner wrapper
- 2550 kg with inner wrapper
Switch cabinet:
- 350 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 and wrapping material knife
- Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
- 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.
Optional extras
- Photo-electric print registration
- Additional reel holders for a second wrapping material (under strip) with automatic splicer
- Special execution for moulded toffees
- Remote diagnostics
- Optional device for hermetically sealed, airtight packages (“Protected Twist”)
Product Brochure
EK3_ENG_19_1_web.pdf