VDS Style             

Product Benefits

Eliminate Over/Under Shipments

Reduce Operating Costs

Greater Employee Efficiency

Space Concise Design

Custom Built for each Application

 

Our aluminum foil container Stackers are custom designed for the specific container or containers that you wish to stack. We build four main styles of stackers, they are; Vertical Drop Stacker (VDS), Vertical Drop Palette Stacker (VDSP), Waterfall and Custom. Most containers can be stacked using the vertical drop style or the vertical drop palette style, but the waterfall and custom styles are used when required either due to custom request or design specifications.

Each stacker body is constructed of extruded aluminum components.

Our Stacking wells are constructed of clear material so as to allow for the entire well to be visible.

All electronics can be custom specified to match your current inventory of spare parts or our standard Allen Bradley® components can be used.

We use food grade white nitrile laced belting for the upper drive and a variety of nitrile or urethane belting for the exit conveyor. Custom belts are available if requested.

Each Stacker comes with a 6 month warranty

 

Various Style Descriptions

As the containers leave the press they land on a conveyor belt, which routes the container to into stacking lanes. Here they are forced down a radius shoot to a lower convey belt. When they reach the end of the radius they are blow onto the next conveyor belt in the vertical position. As the containers enter the second belt they nest within each other. The second conveyor belt is actuated each time a container leaves the "waterfall". The waterfall stacker allows the containers to be stacked horizontally in the stacking lanes. The user then reaches in and selects the proper amount of containers needed for each package. The downfall of this design is that it does not provide pre-counted stacks of containers.

A count separating mechanism is available for the waterfall style stacker that allows for a set amount of space to be inserted between stacks. The containers are still stacked horizontally, but they are separated into stacks of predetermined quantities. The inclusion of this feature will require additional space.

Vertical Drop Stacker (VDS)

As the containers leave the press they land on a conveyor belt, which feeds the containers into the stacking well. As the containers enter the stacking well they are counted, when a predetermined sub-count is reached rotary actuated paddles release the stack of container and drop to the bottom of the stacking well. This process continues until the stacker reaches the total predetermined count for a finished stack. Once the last "sub-stack" is dropped a transition paddle is actuated and the containers are pushed laterally to the exit conveyor belt. The stacked containers travel on the exit conveyor where they are picked up by the user and placed into the boxes for shipment. The single station VDS is U-shaped to minimize the required floor space.

In a multi-station tool the sub-stacks are dropped onto the exit conveyor directly and the finished stacks exits the stacking well from the front and are then packed as they exit the stacking well.

The VDSP is similar to the VDS except that within the stacking well there is an aluminum palette. This palette rests just under the rotary actuated paddles and allows the containers to drop the minimum required amount in order to clear the paddles. Each time a sub-stack of containers is dropped the palate lowers. Once the stacker has reached the total stack count the palette lowers the remaining distance and the containers exits the stacking well. VDSP style stackers provide a method for eliminating the "float’ that sometimes occurs in smaller containers causing the container not to stack properly.