Semi-Automatic Collator

Collator stacks and accumulates bags and other flexible packages vertically for hand packer. Ideal for snack food bags such as potato chips, pretzels and other flexible packages.

How the "Semi-Automatic Collator" works

Upon exiting the bag maker, the packaged product arrives via a side-adjustable chute on the inclined belt conveyor. At the end of the conveyor the packages are fed into a patented indexing starwheel, which positions them vertically on a discharge conveyor. The operator picks up a row of packaged product from the discharge conveyor and places them into the pre-erected case.

The patented starwheel gives perfect product orientation, even for small one-ounce packages. Now available with single or dual lane!

Increase Production, Not Labor: With the collator you can increase production speeds without adding more hand packers
Eliminate Rotary Pack-off Table Requirements: Since you do not need the rotary table, the actual cost of the collator is even lower

Change Over: Less than one minute
Reduce Labor
Gentle Bag Handling