Product Line

The customer needed a conveyor system for individually wrapped small frozen products. The product comes from two wrappers in 8 lanes at 300 pieces per minute on each wrapper. The conveyor system requirements are to take the 8 lanes wide down to 1 lane wide, then convey the single lane around to custom fabricated hand pack stations. Harris custom designed these 3-4 worker hand pack stations to bring the product in at a higher elevation with the empty cases directly below the product conveyor. The operators can slide the items directly into the open cases. Then the case is pushed onto a gravity roller and goes onto a takeaway conveyor under the product conveyor. Once in the cases, Harris designed custom side gripper case elevators to elevate the cases and convey these across the plant to a freezer room for storage. Inside the freezer, the product needed to switch from one lane to the other depending on which room is full. We were able to design and build a servo divert gate that would work in the -30-degree Fahrenheit freezer.

A challenge during this project was the irregularly shaped product made it challenging for transfers and general conveyor design. Harris designed custom transfer rollers to allow product to be conveyed with no damage or loss. The customer was able to eliminate many issues with manpower and damaged product as a result.