DBO100

by Sara / Tuesday, 06 April 2021 / Published in Various

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High-speed bottle orienter

Need

Bottle orienters serve multiple purposes:

– On the blow moulding side:

HDPE bottles are made on a twin station machine, made from the same parison. Their necks are in the same direction (in the machine) for material distribution purposes. However, exiting those bottles on different sides makes them come out in different ways. As a result, joining bottles together often creates the need for rotating stations. For this reason, we at Delta Engineering developed different solutions, the DBO100 being the most advanced one.

The bottle orienter grabs the bottles by the neck, and rotates them by using different belt speeds. Setting the speeds of the belts results in a rotation of the bottle over the length of the belt. In this way, you can adjust the rotation precisely.

Moreover, we can add a smart camera system (optionally):
The camera detects the actual orientation of the bottle and then corrects it to the desired orientation.
To this end, it can rotate one bottle, for example, by an angle of 3° and another one by 16°, etc. This can be necessary on higher speed lines on which bottles are irregularly oriented.
Or, if only once in a while a wrongly oriented bottle occurs, the smart camera can detect the wrongly oriented bottles and reorient them only.
After all, it is important to reorient wrongly oriented bottles, because otherwise they can cause line jams. By doing so, you ensure a high line OEE.

In most cases, a simple bottle orienter DBO050 is sufficient: a simple pneumatic orienting system, embedded in a security – safety fenced solution.
For OEM customers, we have integrated solutions as well (without safety fencing).

– In-between filling lines:

The same need is present on filling lines as well, but on those lines, the DBO100 is in most cases a necessity as the speeds are higher.

Machine design

This bottle orienter is a very stable and reliable orienting system. Moreover, it is integrated into a stable frame, so it ensures the latest safety standards.
It can correct wrongly oriented bottles, ensuring a high line OEE.