The Leader of the Pack
The Sunkist® Soft Touch® Pattern Packer will put you ahead of your competition. The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer provides exceptional functionality for year-round, multi-variety fruit packing. At Sunkist® Research, we’ve studied your packing needs to make the Soft Touch® Pattern Packer versatile and adaptable to changing markets requirements. Sunkist® machinery packs fruit quickly, efficiently and gently.
- The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer can uniformly pack in excess of 200 cartons/hour with one machine operator (4/5 bushel cartons) and in excess of 600 trays per hour.
- The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer can pack a wide range of fruit sizes and layer counts. Counts and sizes have been designed for Argentina, Australia, Israel, South Africa, Spain and the United States in a variety of packages, fruit diameters and layer configurations.
- The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer can pack into a range of cartons from the small, 2 kilo Spanish Clementine wooden box up to the standard 4/5 bushel (FGS-7) the 30 x 40 cm carton and the 400 X 600mm open top tray. Contact your Sunkist® sales representative for exact details.
- The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer is capable of packing oranges, grapefruit and minneolas.
- The Soft Touch® Pattern Packer is available with a walking board infeed that will fit standard citrus accumulation bins.
- A variety of fruit accumulation systems work with the Soft Touch® pack machine.
- Changeover from one size or pattern to another can be accomplished in a matter of minutes.
- This is a state-of-the-art programmable logic control system (protected by Sunkist® Soft Touch® patents).
- Fruit is handled by high volume, low vacuum air with soft rubber suction bellows.
- Fruit enters the carton through a patented tucker plate assembly mechanism.
- This assembly mechanism is mounted on high quality casters; the pack machine is easily portable from one packing location to another.
- Lock down devices ensure stability during packing operation.
- Empty cartons are automatically placed in position after being hand formed and placed in the conveyor trough.
- Full cartons are moved automatically onto the customer’s carton roll conveyor via a “traffic cop mechanism” to divert cartons from collisions and to maintain throughput.
- This system is designed with safety lock-outs and operational procedures to guard operators from potential safety hazards.
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Installation Requirements
- 30 Amps 240 VAC 30A single phase or 240 VAC 15A three phase power.
- 80 PSI 35CFM dried air per machine.
- Fruit reservoir feed system to provide a constant supply of fruit to the Pack Machine.
- Optional airbladder system can be installed in the gravity feed accumulation bins to maintain fruit flow.
- Carton forming trays to provide space for carton supplies and carton make-up.
Finance Options
Specially tailored finance options with optional purchase plans to fit your packinghouse needs.
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