The Marchesini MA100 si an intermittent motion automatic machine with horizontal transport of the carton, suitable for packing products into three-flaps straight or reverse tuck-in cartons.

Main Features

• Design, manufacturing and ergonomics, in accordance with GMP norms;
• Versatility and efficiency in a small footprint;
• Balcony design to improve accessibility, maintenance and cleaning operations;
• Working zone on operator side for cartons, products and leaflets transport, separated from the rear of the machine enclosing the mechanics and the main servo motor drive;
• Cartons transport and closing movements running in oil bath, enclosed in two drive boxes;
• Cartons transport system with adjustment (“a” quote) from a single point of intervention, through handwheel and digital indicators;
• Adjustment of carton length (“h” dimension), by widening the belt transport system, through handwheel and digital indicators;
• Separated removable bins for collecting rejected products, cartons and leaflets;
• Handwheel, digital indicators, millimeter scales and size gauges for easy size changeover;
• CE marking.

Product Feeding    

• Product transport performed through buckets fitted on two belts for low noise operation of the machine; prearranged to be combined with different types of automatic feeding units, based on products to handle;
• Simultaneous adjustment of all infeed buckets from a single point of intervention, by means of a size gauge, for a quick adjustment of the “a” quote.

Bottle Feeder with Horizontal Helix

• Bottle feeder with horizontal helix for bottle lay down, placed at machine table level;
• Bottles arriving in single lane, upright standing, enter the helix which provides to lay them down;
• At the end of the helix a pusher introduces the bottle into the bucket of the cartoner transport chain;
• The feeder is supplied with:
  – bottles feeding conveyor, 1000 mm long;
  – one horizontal helix to process one bottle format size.
• The group can process bottles up to a max. diameter of 75 mm;
• Not included (to be quoted separately, based on the layout): bottles conveyor belt upstream the feeder.

Cartoning Section 

• Cartons magazine placed at about 900 mm (35.43”), in an easy position for the operator to load cartons, equipped with motorized pusher belts and minimum load control;
• Simplified magazine guides and pickup adjustment with millimeter scales;
• Carton opening by means of a pick-up oscillating arm and 90 degrees mechanical pre-breaking unit;
• Direct transfer of the opened carton into the transport group equipped with 4 strong plastic toothed belts to keep the carton in perfect square;
• Product insertion into carton, by means of a pusher unit placed opposite the operator side;
• Carton closing and discharge on outfeed guides.

Safeties and Controls

• Safeties guards in methacrylate, integrated in the machine frame;
• Emergency circuits and protections with safety level “PLd Cat.3”;
• Machine stop in emergency mode and release of the air pressure;
• Overload control on the machine motorizations;
• Overload control on pusher unit during product insertion;
• Minimum load control on products, cartons and leaflets feeding;
• Cross control product-carton-leaflet; in absence of product, the machine does not pick up neither carton nor leaflet;
• Carton reject control;
• Machine stop after three consecutive errors.

Included 

• One (1) carton and product size.

Optional Accessories

• Embossing cartons marking;
• Different types of carton closures (hotmelt or tuck-in closures), available on demand;
• Pre-folded leaflets magazine or GUK open/from reel sheets folder, installed within the safety guard and loaded from the outside.