The PID SBP® inserts stretched board pre-assembled partitions into cardboard boxes, in order to protect fragile products (such as glass containers) and save their labels from abrasions.

This device can be installed on the WP wrap-around casepackers and on the CM combined packers.

The PID SBP® and the partitions magazine are situated at the machine infeed, above the pack formation zone. The maximum output is 45 packs per minute.

Advantages

Compared with the traditional inserting systems of non-preassembled partitions, the PID SBP® allows to:

• reduce the partitions purchasing cost by about 20% and their storage volume by at least 60%;
• have a more compact machine, since both the partition magazine and the Partition Inserting Device are mounted on top of the machine; in this way, the machine dimensions are the same as those of a conventional casepacker;
• speed up the partition insertion operation and the loading times of the relevant magazine, since partitions are already pre-assembled;
• reduce the sensitivity of partitions to humidity and climate changes.

Operation

A mechanical arm equipped with vacuum suckers (1) picks a stretched board pre-assembled partition from the partition magazine, opens it and lowers it between the products (2) that have just been grouped in the required pack collation.

Finally (3) a cardboard blank is wrapped around the products by means of special guides, thus forming a case.