HCW4-FPC
High-speed wrapping machine for pre-formed products in bottom fold. The direct connection of a flow pack machine enables the grouping of the individual products and simultaneous secondary packaging.
Product Characteristics
Folding type
Primary packaging
- Bottom Fold
Secondary packaging
- Flow Pack
Products
- Products suitable for plate feeding
- Hard Candy (with or without center-filling)
- Eclair
- Toffees
Product dimensions
Single Products
- Length: 18 – 40 mm
- Width: 12 – 25 mm
- Height: 8 – 16 mm
Stick Pack
- Length: 44 – 130 mm
- Width: 18 – 40 mm
- Height: 12 – 25 mm
Products per Stick Pack
- 3 – 16 pieces
Output
- Up to 1500 single products / min
Technical Data
Utilities
- Connected load: 22 kVA
- Compressed air consumption: 6 m³/h; 700 kPa
Measurements
Machine
- Length: 6350 mm
- Width: 2730 mm
- Height: 2060 mm
Switch cabinet
- Length: 4200 mm
- Width: 500 mm
- Height: 2240 mm
Weight
- Machine: 6500 kg
- Switch cabinet: 1170 kg
Wrapping material
HCW4
- Wax paper
- Cellophane
- Polypropylene
- Aluminium/paper – coated
FPC5
- Cold sealable foil
- Heat sealable foil
Material dimensions
HCW4
- Reel diameter: up to 400 mm
- Reel width: up to 100 mm
- Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm
FPC5
- Reel diameter: up to 400mm
- Reel width: up to 160 mm
- Core diameter: 75 – 76,2 mm
Equipment & Options
Special features
HCW4
- 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
- Pickup of the products from the feeding plate and simultaneous wrapping material supply within the removal wheel reduces product transfers
- 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
- Servo-driven wrapping material feed rollers, wrapping material knife and material reels
- Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
- Heating wheel to seal the wrapping
- Automatic temperature control of the sealing units
- Opening of the heat sealing units at machine stop
- Servo motor driven grouping section to prevent incomplete product groups
- Servo motor driven transfer of product groups to a continuous or discontinuous motion secondary wrapping machine
- Pressureless water treatment
FPC5
Servo motor driven lug chain to transport the products in a controlled position to the wrapping section of the secondary packaging machine
- Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
- Manual or automatic web tracking control
- Servo motor driven foil pre – draw off system to allow splicing at full machine speed and correctly at the print mark position to minimize the amount of spliced products rejected
- Print registration, detection system for manufacturer foil splices, code dating device, tear tape device
- Two or three-stage longitudinal sealing device for cold or heat sealing
- Segmented cross sealing device for cold and heat sealing with up to four sealing jaws
- Cross seam sealing profile in longitudinal or transversal direction
- Discharge conveyor with separate drive
- Upper support discharge belt
- Ejecting device for faulty packs
- Suction device for empty pouches
- Excellent accessibility for operation, maintenance and cleaning purposes
- Easy operation due to the touch screen
- Depending on local conditions, one operator is required
- 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
HCW4_FPC5_ENG_19_1_web.pdf