Features
- Increased Productivity
- Reduced Waste
The innovative configuration includes:
- Unwind and Web Handling Systems
- Pre-cut
- Each lane:
- Lane formats create family of sizes
- Dedicated x-perf unit to create a pre-cut at tail of the photo
- Offcut remains attached to waste matrix at sides and tail
- Functions similarly to a rotary die cutter
- Registration – TOF mark
- Bar code controlled – on back or in trim
- Each lane:
- Gap Creation
- Separates orders in each lane and prepares them for delivery
- Each lane behaves independently
- Stream of products
- Shingled with very small reveal
- Accelerator belt
- Advances between end of order and start of next order
- Creates larger reveal between orders
- Shingle position adjustment
- Required for format length at changeover
- Die Cutting
- Combines removal of all waste with cut process
- Die-cut pattern: Separates finished products from the matrix of waste (gutter and chip) which remains as a web
- Precut offcuts: Removed
- Waste matrix: pulled away to either be rewound by the matrix rewind or collected by an evacuation system
- Separation Module
- Comprised of two sets of straight and angled vacuum belts that selectively diverge the streams family of finished products go straight through the separation module
- Other products are diverged with the angled belts
- Pocketer Delivery
- Pocketer: flighted conveyor that collects completed orders
- Finished products transported through the gap creation section and fill a pocket
- When order is completed
- Gap creation section pauses, conveyor indexes to the next pocket
- Each lane is independent
- Finished orders collected by operators after they are delivered by a pocket
