The ADVECTOR ensures optimized sheet feeding to printing lines, inliners, flat-bed and rotary die cutters and digital printing machines by creating a continuous shingling sheet flow.
With its extremely short installation length, due to the possibility of a lateral infeed, the ADVECTOR can be used almost everywhere - even under very constricted space conditions. This can also be realized with ADVECTORS that can be driven up. This creates more storage space and enables the machine operator to carry out a final quality check before the block is processed in the ADVECTOR.
Unlike conventional solutions, the stacks are not raised but directly processed in small packages. This enables the operator to mark, for example, a damaged area in the stack in the touch panel, which should not be processed. The ADVECTOR removes the stack up to the marking and the operator can then take out the damaged sheets. Furthermore, this concept ensures highest throughput rates, as the stack change time is reduced compared to conventional applications. Residual sheet discharge and infeed of the new stack take place in parallel. The internal buffer on the lifting table and in front of the shingling gate bridge the time of the stack change.
A hold-down device ensures that the separation process is trouble-free even with curved sheets. Thus, no sheets are pulled along unintentionally and subsequently the production process is not disturbed.

Based on the basic concept of the ADVECTOR, the ADVECTORverto is equipped with a turner. This can supply top printers and applications for an internal/double-sided print. The Verto offers even higher throughput rates due to the additional material buffer in the turner. Of course, it is also possible to use the infeed laterally here.

Advantages

• Easy handling for operators
• No lifting of unnecessary weights by pick-up from stacks in packages
• Short installation length possible by lateral infeed
• Continuous shingling sheet flow even during stack change without any downtime
• Short machine set-up time by storing the order data
• Clean production and feeding area

Special features

• Telescopic transfer table adjustable to converting machine
• Gentle transport by continuous rubber-covered plastic chain
• Easy integration into existing structures
• Good access for sheet removal
• Free selection of operator side
• Exclusive use of electrical and pneumatic components

For the completion of palletizing lines in the area of flat-bed and rotary die cutters, the Fractor has been developed for different working widths up to 3,200 mm. The Fractor is used to separate die-cut sheets, when several finished products are produced from one die-cut sheet and must then be separated after the die-cutting process. The electronically working Fractor with adjustable and segmented bar features a high positioning accuracy and a simple operation. It is also suitable for L-form nesting. Due to the rubber-covered plastic chain only a low pressure is required so that the flutes of the sheets are not compressed during the separation process.

Breaker line

In the breaker line two breakers are arranged as line or angular version in order to separate the goods in length- as well as crosswise direction.
This installation allows dividing the separation process and thus leads to a higher throughput per hour. With the modular design and the variable installation possibilities the Fractor line provides applications for nearly all requirements.

Corner turntables are used in transport lines when the direction is changed by 90° and products are to be fed in and out laterally.
A plastic chain with balls allows an easy and elegant execution of this task. Under the ball chain a light transport belt is arranged crosswise to the operating direction. For the lateral transport this belt is driven, the bundles or trays are moved against the operating direction of the belt and can be taken by the adjacent conveyor.

Advantages

• Minimal ball grid for smallest products
• No lifting required, thus no shearing and pinching zones
• Safe and gentle transport of adjacent products
• Transport in all four directions without restrictions

Special features

• Flat ball chain on transport belt
• No housing or safety fences necessary
• Installation size according to the products

On the spherical table bundles and trays can be turned with free access by 90° or 180°. The turntable is equipped with a plastic chain with integrated balls. The product is centered above the turntable. The safe and exact rotation of the goods is ensured by turning the table while the chain remains unmoved. Then the goods are transported by means of the chain. As this process does not require any lifting movement, it does not lead to any dangerous pinch and shear zones.  Thus, housing or safety fences are not necessary. The cycle time is shortened compared to conventional technology.

Advantages

• Minimum ball grid for smallest products of 200 mm x 200 mm
• No lifting required, thus no shearing and pinching zones
• Safe turning of adjacent products
• Any angle of rotation is possible

The semi-automatic palletizing is used to create stacks behind a converting machine and always works at the same ergonomic height. 

The operator pushes the bundles onto the stacking plate, where packing patterns are built.  After the complete layer has been created, the layer change is activated by means of a push-button.
Then the stacking plate moves back and the finished layer is positioned on the pallet.

The palletizing robot is used for fully-automatic creation of stacks behind inliners, flat-bed die-cutters and rotational die-cutters.   
The packs are automatically fed to the robot and can be turned, turned over or doubled up depending on the default stack formation pattern. The robot gripping system allows to pick-up one or several bundles at the same time and properly deposits them. Thanks to this flexibility there is no fixed reference required and any palletizing pattern can be created.
Automatic dispensing of the bottom protection sheets and intermediate layers is achieved by a linear unit equipped with injection suction cups.

Our partner for robot palletizing is  Maschinenbau u. Konstruktion GmbH Elmshorn (MUK).

Benefit from the advantages of our cooperation!

Apart from semi-automatic palletizing, MINDA now also provides fully automatic layer palletizing as an addition to its portfolio. The individual stacks or bundles are assembled to the desired layer pattern in the palletizer section. Thanks to the modular design, customer requirements can be implemented individually and accommodated in production in a space-saving manner. This means that the layers can be deposited alternately by the turning device and, if required, doubled or tripled. In addition, an automatic empty pallet infeed is possible. Of course, we only use our Spherical Cross and Spherical Table components to create the layer. By using them we do not use lifting movements and offer you a system that is as open as possible.

Stacking corners are used for manual stacking behind converting machines, when automatic palletizers are not used.
The stacking corner consists of a packing corner with adjustable side wall, which is in a pit or on an electrical lifting table.
In models with lifting table, the operator can raise and lower the lifting table by a foot switch. (ergonomic workplace)

With the CAPTOR storage tower, you can control the destacking cycles behind your converting machines in order to process the output of the machines efficiently.  

The buffering of packages in the storage tower in previously formed layers on the Spherical Cross enables an optimization of the personnel operating times. It is even possible to stack stacks from two die-cutters with only one palletizing robot by processing the output of the converting machines one after the other. The compact design and the storage on several levels provide the intermediate storage of several bundles. Even with very small space requirements.

In this way, as many stacks as possible are simultaneously collected in the storage tower and stored ready for delivery.
Unnecessary waiting times of the palletizer are avoided and the performance of the converting machines is increased.

Once a layer has been completely formed, the next step is to lift the layer table under the roller conveyor and move it into the first buffer position. The layer tables are connected to each other at a defined distance, so that the second layer table is already positioned in the gaps of the roller conveyor when the first one is lifted out. This creates as small a gap as possible between the rollers, providing additional stability for the transported stacks. The layer is now buffered and a new empty layer is free for loading.