Bartelt IMC Intermittent-Motion End Load Cartoner

Full Servo Control Carton Forming, Loading, Sealing

The Bartelt IMC servo driven horizontal, intermittent-motion cartoning system is ideal for cartoning food and consumer goods, as well as pharmaceuticals, tobacco and many other products.

A multi-head rotary carton feeder, servo-driven product inserter and servo rotary flap tuckers provide excellent control at rates up to 120 cycles per minute.

This heavy-duty cartoner stands out for its operational flexibility. This machine can run many different carton shapes, and a full range of product sizes – for bags, pouches, trays, flow-wraps, and a variety of loose or stacked products.

An open-frame design provides access for easy cleaning, and excellent product visibility.

Servo technology enables fast simple changeovers to adjust carton sizes as well as changing from flap gluing to flap tucking.

Features and Benefits

Modular stainless steel open frame design

Carton magazine to supply rotary feeder

Servo-driven, two-head rotary carton set up

Servo-driven product inserter

Product/carton tooling

No product/no carton, no carton/no load

Carton end flap detection for both minor and major

Air operated top rail

Servo rotary flap tuckers

Pneumatic Compression closure

Carton discharge

Low profile guarding system with safety interlocks doors

Rockwell motion control package

Rockwell color touch screen operating panel

All-servo design

Low maintenance

Modular – easy to upgrade

Speeds up to 120 cartons per minute, depending on machine pitch and application

Single-packs and multi-packs

Flexibility

Runs a variety of carton sizes and styles

Quick and repeatable size changeover

Ergonomically designed

Operation

Folded and pre-glued cartons are manually placed into the horizontal powered carton magazine

Carton blanks are intermittently removed from the bottom of the magazine using a servo driven two head rotary carton feeder featuring multiple vacuum cups mounted on spindles

The carton is placed in an open position between the carton transport lugs and transported to the product loading station

Photo eyes detect carton presence

Products previously placed into the buckets of the in-feed conveyor are side transferred into the carton by the intermittent motion product inserter

Transfer conveyor funnel provides the final positioning of the product during the loading stroke

After the product has been loaded into the carton, the carton is closed, (glue or tuck) and discharged

Options

Carton coding –inkjet, laser, thermal transfer

Open flap detect

Product conditioner

Product transfer

Servo adjustable in-feed

Drop gate combiner

Integration of checkweigher

Integration of glue system

Industries

Home and personal care, for example: Soap, wet wipes, bandages, saline solutions etc.

Consumer goods

Confectionery

Tobacco products

Food products

Carton Sizes

Please contact Pro Pac or call 888-318-0083 for your cartoning equipment.