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

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