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The machine is capable of discharging a full pallet with 11 layers of plastic sacks in 8 minutes. The feeding of the machine is performed by a forklift operator and the empty pallet removal is also carried out in this way, but the remainder of the operation is completed without human intervention. Thus reducing labour costs and the risk of injury.
Controlled by a user friendly; menu driven, touch screen, the machine mechanically grabs a layer of sacks, slits them and empties them into the required vessel. i.e. silo hopper or other type of container. It is able to handle all arrangements of sacks on the pallets and tests show that 99.90% of the material is collected which dramatically reduces wastage occurring in manual handling and promotes good housekeeping.
The set up allows definition of the number of sacks to be discharged before pausing the debagging cycle, which is of great benefit when filling big bags or small containers. A sensor in the discharge hopper will also pause the cycle when it is full.
Empty sacks can be collected in a variety of ways; for example, into storage containers or big bags. There is also a facility to collect units of 100 sacks into one metre long plastic sleeves or to bail 1000 sacks.
Whilst being primarily designed for the plastics industry Summit are eager to point out the vast scope of possibilities for this machine and will be promoting it to their many material handling customers outside the plastics sphere.
Further information can be obtained at http://www.summitsystems.co.uk
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