Shuttleworth’s Star Roller is the ideal solution for handling paper products without product damage.
The Challenge
- Customer desired a gentle form of transporting stacks of paper checks without crumpling or shingling
- Ability to stack and square unbound stacks to prepare for shrink wrapping
- System must be clean to ensure minimal dust
- System must integrate with customers’ existing equipment
Our Solution
- A fully automated solution that provided the transporting, combining, and indexing of unbound stacks of checks
- Shuttleworth’s star roller technology gently handles product while allowing dust particles to pass through the conveyor, keeping the product and conveyor surface clean
- Retractable fixed end stop separates product
- Lift And Transfer (LAT) device properly orients checks
- Pin stops and overhead brake used to hold back checks until preceding stack advances
- Pneumatic pusher straightens and squares stacks in preparation to feed into automatic shrink wrapper
The Results
- Integrated solution that smoothly transports, orients, and squares paper products in a clean environment
- Star roller technology used to gently handle product, minimizing damage often seen on a traditional belt or roller conveyor
- System provided transporting of paper checks at the rate of 25 stacks/minute
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