The Marchesini MA260 is a continuous motion, high speed, horizontal cartoning machine, suitable for packing products into three-flaps straight or reverse tuck-in cartons.

Main Features

• Design, manufacturing and ergonomics, in accordance with cGMP norms.
• Versatility and efficiency in a small footprint.
• Balcony design to improve accessibility, maintenance and cleaning operations.
• Working zone on operator side for cartons, products and leaflets transport, separated from the rear of the machine enclosing the mechanics and the main servo motor drive.
• Movements running in oil bath, enclosed in two drive boxes, for the pushers drive and cartons opening, transport and closing.
• “h” quote (length) motorized adjustment of carton size carried out from the operator panel.
• Sloping surfaces to carry any ejected product or carton towards the operator, for the collection in proper bin.
• Size changeover through handwheels, mechanical digital indicators, millimeter scales and/or tuck-in closure carton size without adjustments.
• CE marking.

Product Feeding    

• Product bucket infeed belts with simultaneous adjustment of all infeed buckets (related to product width) by handwheel and size reference gauge.
• Belts product transport designed to be connected to different types of automatic and/or robotized product feeding units.

Cartoning Section 

• Cartons magazine having a standard length of 1.250 mm (49.21”) placed in a lower position than the product transport belts in order to improve the cartons loading which is made at about 700 mm – 27.56”, equipped with motorized pusher belts and minimum load control.
• Simplified magazine guides and pick up adjustment with millimeter scales and mechanical digital indicators.
• Carton pick up by means of suction cups arms.
• Oscillating suction cups mechanism making the carton opening at 90 degrees.
• Introduction of the carton into the transport lug belts with simultaneous size adjustment from single point of the carton width (“a” quote).
• Product insertion into carton by means of two independent motion pushers, placed opposite the operator side, following the continuous motion of the lug belts.
• Carton closing and transfer to the discharge area, through two lateral accelerating belts.

Safeties and Controls

• Safety guards in methacrylate, integrated in the machine frame.
• Emergency circuits and protections with safety level “PLd Cat.3”.
• Machine stop in emergency mode and release of the air pressure.
• Control of the correct carton opening.
• Control of the leaflet presence before the insertion into carton.
• Overload control on pushers unit during product insertion.
• Minimum loads control on products, cartons and leaflets feeding.
• Cross control product-carton-leaflet; in absence of product, the machine does not pick up neither carton nor leaflet.
• Overload control on the machine motorizations.
• Carton reject control.
• Machine stop after three consecutive errors.

Included 

• One (1) carton and product size.

Optional Accessories

• Embossing, inkjet or laser cartons marking.
• Different types of carton closures (hotmelt and/or tuck-in closures).
• Pre-folded leaflets magazine or GUK open/from reel sheets folder, installed within the safety guard and loaded from the outside.