The customer needed to run a high-speed dividing application for metal pet food cans. With the cans being short, typical screw style dividing systems wouldn’t be applicable or provide the most robust solution.
Since timing screws wouldn’t be able to touch the container with complete positive control to complete the divide, Morrison designed a pneumatic divider that used dividing fingers to touch the containers and push them from side to side for the divide.
The divide was slug fed, meaning groups of containers were fed into one lane, then the finger gate shifted for the group of containers to be fed into the second lane. This application repeated continuously as long as backlog was present.
This system was constructed with stainless steel to allow for cleaning and durability in a low washdown environment.
Dividing applications are used when one lane of product needs to feed two lanes of product downstream. They allow for increased productivity by automating the dividing process and increasing efficiency of downstream application options.
Pneumatic dividers can provide flexibility if you need to divide into more than two lanes.
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