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.

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.