- reliability through the highest level of quality: stable, valuable and absolutely high-quality design
- long service intervals
- highest hygiene standards: simple and time-saving cleaning at long cleaning intervals, best choice of materials and well engineered hygienic design
- space saving and compact design
GOBUS-SP
You have products that lie directly and individually in rows on a belt conveyor and you want to transport them as efficiently as possible to your downstream packaging machines? Then our conveying and buffer system for single products GOBUS-SP is your choice: GOndola BUffer System for Single Products.
With a high-performance gondola buffer at the heart of the system and a conveying and distribution system that is precisely tailored to your needs, you will enable your production to achieve maximum line efficiency. The systemic decoupling of the two value-added steps of product manufacturing and packaging or further processing allows them to work each under their best possible conditions and this results in combination with the buffer and distribution system in a harmoniously and efficiently coordinated overall system.
Advantages
Economic Efficiency
Performance
- highest infeed and discharge cycles in this segment
- smart high performance infeed with market leading infeed and discharge performance of up to 160 rows per minute with gentle product handling
- vibration reducing machine and software design
General
- best safety standards for the benefit of your operating personnel
- for projects in the food sector, exclusive use of food-approved materials and no coatings of any kind in the product area
- excellent maintenance and cleaning accessibility
- tool free gondola changeover
- ideally suited for chocolate bars, napolitains and block chocolate
Intermediate Buffer
As an "intermediate buffer", the gondola buffer is located at the beginning or in the middle of the conveying system and, in its function as a drive-through buffer, primarily decouples the two production areas from each other and stores products temporarily. In this constellation and depending on the location of the buffer, product overflow cannot be accommodated from the entire distribution system. The discharge typically takes place inline in the direction of the downstream distribution system.
Discharge Buffer
As a "discharge buffer", the gondola buffer is usually located at the end of a distribution system and contains integrated discharge stations. In this constellation, it is possible and intended to accommodate a product overflow of the entire distribution system. The discharge direction here is typically transverse to the flow direction of the distribution system and 1 or 2 or even 3 conveying lines or packaging machines can be fed directly from the buffer and this to both sides of the buffer. This is a very space saving and cost optimised variant for your entire distribution system and is most often chosen by our clients.
Overflow Buffer
„As an "overflow buffer", the gondola buffer is located at the end of a distribution system and receives all products that could not be processed by the upstream packaging machines. The discharge situation here can vary from the above mentioned discharge functions to a semi automatic discharge for manual removal or with a refeed function according to the FILO principle: First-In / Last-Out.
Operating Principle
The products of your production line are transferred in a regular pattern on a belt conveyor to the downstream conveyor system and are fed to a gondola buffer at maximum production output.
In the infeed of the buffer, individual rows are formed from the incoming product flow and are fed to the gondolas of the buffer either in cycles or independently of the cycle, depending on the application and requirements.
The gondola design varies in length and width and in the number of its trays depending on the required output, product geometry, width of the infeed belt and the desired buffering capacity.
The filled gondolas are transferred from the buffer infeed towards the buffer discharge on two co-rotating chains. The first-in / first-out principle applies, which ensures that the counter moulds stored first are unloaded first. In this way, the time of the products in the buffer is kept as short as possible.
Basically, the infeed side and the outfeed side of a gondola buffer are functionally separated from each other, i.e. the loading on the infeed side can be done independently of the unloading of the gondolas on the outfeed side and vice versa.
The smart discharge system synchronises the discharge with the downstream packaging machines, thus guaranteeing a demand-oriented supply of products. This is referred to as product flow regulation. This allows the packaging machines to run in the most uniform and efficient operating condition possible.
