Rather than picking up the entire stack
and relying on gravity to despatch
the bottom crate, the Crate DESTAKer
clamps the bottom crate down, lifts
the rest of the stack up, and then
despatches the bottom crate
Case stacks up for new
dual crate destacker
Brillopak has launched a new Dual
Crate DESTAKer for feeding empty retail
crates to food packing lines at high
speed with maximum flexibility. Based
on the same proven operating principle
as the original Crate DESTAKer system,
the new Dual Crate DESTAKer destacks
two stacks simultaneously, enabling
handling of 18 crates per minute and
servicing of multiple packing lines.
Brillopak’s Crate DESTAKers are
employed in packing facilities for food
products ranging from fresh fruit and
veg to meat, baked goods and pizzas.
The innovative system is prized for the
unrivalled flexibility and reliability it
offers versus the competition, thanks
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to a game-changing operating principle;
rather than picking up the entire stack
and relying on gravity to despatch the
bottom crate, the Crate DESTAKers
clamps the bottom crate down, lifts
the rest of the stack up, and then
despatches the bottom crate.
In a typical packing hall set-up, crates
are transported to the line via forklift by
the pallet load (usually around 30 to 40
crates high). The pallet load is pushed
onto an accumulation conveyor that
feeds stacks (usually five crates) into
the crate destacker, leaving operators
free to focus on other tasks while the
machine continues to destack onto the
line.
UNIQUE OPERATING PRINCIPLE
The Crate DESTAKer uses pneumatic
clamps to grip both the bottom crate
and the upper (remaining) section of
the stack. The upper clamp is powered
by two servo motors, which lift the
crates up to enable the bottom crate to
be moved out of the stack and indexed
into the downstream automated crate
packing system. The use of servo
motors makes the destacking system
infinitely adjustable – the operator can
change between crate sizes, change the
speed at which the system accelerates
and decelerates and alter the height
to which the stack is lifted – all via the
system’s user-friendly HMI.