Cartoner with Two Lane K Cup Filler

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

 

Main workstations are following:

• Empty Pod Drop
• Cup Detecting
• Auger Filler
• Tamper and Vacuum Clean
• Lid Drop
• Heat Seal
• Heat Seal
• Take Out Finished Cup
• Flip K Cups as upside down way
• Robot grab first set of six or eight K Cups
• Robot grab second set as second layer, you can choose three layers
• Load in Carton
• Hot Melt Glue to Seal Carton (as option, you can tuck manually)
• 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.

 

Two lane K Cup filler and sealer can make up to 6K pods per hour and cartoner can pack up to 500 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.

 

More attention is the cartoner part.

 

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.

 

Grouper system to sort cups into different combination

One of track is receive positive K Cups and another one receives reversed K Cups by flipper device. A special designed tooling would sort as 3 or 4 cups by two groups then the Robot grab two times to combine them into one group which 6 or 8 K Cups and load them into carton.

 

Automatic Carton Opener

 

Place K Cup into each carton

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. Then, move to next and the staff close this carton (if need full auto close the carton solution then need hot melt glue system).