U1+F1
High speed plant to form, cut and wrap products in fold wrap with simultaneous overwrapping in flat stick packs or stick packs “on edge”.
Product Characteristics
Folding type
Primary packaging:
- Bottom Fold
- Side Fold
Secondary packaging:
- Stick packs on edge
- Flat stick packs
Products
- Hard and Soft Caramels
- Toffees
- Chewy Sweets
- Chewing Gum
Product dimensions
U1:
- Length: 16 – 45 mm
- Width: 12 – 25 mm
- Height: 4 – 15 mm
F1:
- Length: 25 – 113 mm
- Width: 15 – 30 mm
- Height: 5 – 25 mm
Special sizes upon request.
Sweets per stick pack:
- Stick packs “on edge”: 3 – 16 pieces
- Flat stick packs: 2 – 8 pieces
Output
- Up to 1000 single products/min
- Up to 200 stick packs/min
Technical Data
Utilities
- Connected load: 12 kVA
- Compressed air consumption: 1,5 m³/h; 600 kPa
Cooling water consumption:
- 0,15 m³/h
- Temperature: 10 … 15°C
- Pressure: min. 200 kPa
Measurements
Machine:
Length: 2420 mm
Width: 2020 mm
Height: 2040 mm
Switch cabinet:
- Length: 1800 mm
- Width: 500 mm
- Height: 2000 mm
Weight
- Machine: 4500 kg
- Switch cabinet: 300 kg
Wrapping material
- All common wrapping materials can be used
Material dimensions
U1:
- Reel diameter: 350 mm
- Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm
F1:
- Reel diameter: 300 mm
- Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm
Tear tape:
- Reel diameter: 120 mm
- Reel width: 100 mm
- Core diameter: 29 mm
Equipment & Options
Special features
- Cutting and wrapping of products in fold wrap with simultaneous overwrapping in stick packs
- Prefeeder and water-cooled guillotine knife
- Automatic splicer to change wrapping material reels without stopping the machine
- Servo control with PLC functions
- Central lubrication of all gear parts including oil pressure control/temperature control
- Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
- Servo-driven wrapping material feed rollers and wrapping material knife
- Automatic temperature control of the sealing units
- All electrical and electronic components are located in a separate common switch cabinet
- 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
F1
- Photo-electric print registration
- Opening of the heat sealing units at machine stop
- Tear tape device
Combinations
- Depending on the product, the machine can be synchronized either with a batch roller and rope sizing machine (toffees, hard and soft caramels) or an appropriate extruder and cooling tunnel (chewing gum, bubble-gum, chewy candy).
Optional extras
- Electronic speed control
- Possibility of conversion of the U1 machine to double twist wrap (can also be retrofitted)
- Special paper feed unit for U1 machine in case 2 wrapping materials (outer wrapper and under strip) are used – with or without automatic splicer for the outer wrapper
- Photo-electric print registration for individual products
- Turning respectively turn-up device (180°) for stick packs at the discharge of the F1
- Code dating device for stick packs
- Discharge unit for mal-registered respectively “spliced” stick packs for F1
Product Brochure
U1_F1_ENG_19_1_web.pdf