Cartoner with Four Lane K Cup Filler

Automated packaging machines to fill coffee into K Cup and pack K Cups into carton.

Main workstations are following:

• Vertically Drop Cup
• Cup Inspection
• Auger Filling
• Tamper and Cleaner
• Drop Lid
• Primary Heat Seal
• Second Heat Seal
• Take Out Packed Cup
• Flip K Cup as upside-down order
• Robot grab first group of six or eight K Cups
• Robot grab second group as second layer
• Load in Carton
• Hot Melt Glue to Seal Carton
• A Carton of K Cups

With the development of the machinery industry, the demand for automatic cartoning solutions has become stronger in the single serve business. Based on the different choices of some customers for box styles, flexibility is also the highlight of this equipment.

Four lane K Cup filler equipment can make up to 12K pods per hour and cartoner can pack up to 900 cartons per hour.

As completely packaging line, updated function, such as remote control, voice speaker alarm system

Complete auto detection as: cup check and foil detection, coffee filling check, hopper level refill check.

Nitrogen System

Essential part for well-tasty coffee is Nitrogen injection system, we put from cup loaded, filling station, lid station, until sealed. We made this as long and complete nitrogen gas environment so as to reduce the oxygen eat up the coffee.

Moreover, we also put nitrogen injection port to the coffee material hopper, so

Protection gas like nitrogen or CO2 could easily enter into hopper keep fresh for coffee.

Collaborative and scientific design across mechanical components and nitrogen injection, get the result of residual oxygen up to 1% after lots of testing.

Loading Cup

Horizontal Loader or Vertical Loader to place empty K Cup, vertical tube or horizontal platform as a buffer for K Cups, this system equips with detector for inspecting existence of K Cup in the mold plate. Detector is linkage to alarm system as a broadcast, when cup is low it will tell the actual sound as: please load cups to tell operator reload more cups for continues production run. Any fault operator can review on interface and PC can record it in real time.

UV lamp equipped to guarantees food safety.

Anti-Static device ensures the cleanliness of the product and also guarantee for the subsequent heat-sealing process.

Doser/Filler

Four augers as volumetric dosing unit, drive by Schneider servo motor precisely control the auger spinning, achieve high output while ensuring stable mechanical action. Also install compact agitators inside the hopper and making the coffee flow more uniform so that could guarantee accuracy of filling. Cone shaped hopper made of stain steel with a feature of quick dropping coffee.

Tamper and Cleaner

Tamper station could make the filled K Cup of coffee flat and uniform meanwhile vacuum cleaner remove the dust left around the cup edge, to guarantee for sealing process.

Place Lid and then Lid Detection

Double Heat Seal (seal by two steps for a better sealing)

Buffer with flipper

Two separate conveyor belts as two tracks for K Cups sort into two lines, one as face up and one as face down, get ready for the robot to load them as the pro way packaging of K Cup upside-down to each other in the carton.

By the detector for eliminating empty pods, only the good finished K Cups come over.

Automatic Carton Opener (open the carton and load into machine)

Place K Cup into each carton

Yamaha robot would be program as typical 12ct and 16ct or 24ct mode as each be 6(or8) as one group and then load twice by different height as two layers in each paper carton.

Move to next and Gluing system seal top and bottom of carton.