Possibilities with a jam production line:
- Large-scale production : Perfect for companies that want to produce large volumes of jam.
- Flexibility : Can often be adapted to make different types of jams or related products such as marmalades and chutneys.
- Efficiency : Reduces labor input and increases production rate compared to manual manufacturing.
This solution is ideal for food producers looking for an efficient and quality process to meet market demand for jam products.
Unit is solely for can filling and packing of cooked jam that is filled into the filling machine's container.
How the machine works:
- Hot rinsing of incoming cans
- Hot filling of jam (external filling of jam with pump to the filler container)
- Lid closure
- Can flipping
- Can washing
- Label application
- Date and batch marking
- Packaging of cans on cardboard trays
- Wrapping with shrink film
- Unloading of finished packaging
Flow & description
- Empty cans are loaded onto the infeed table and proceed with the opening up to hot washing. In the washing machine there is a can turner that rotates the can one turn up and down to remove excess water.
- It goes on to filling where jam is filled into the machine's container which has a stirrer and ends up in a queue, opens and closes the feed for filling with 3 cans at a time, when they are released further an arm opens which takes in 3 new cans. Further after filling the 3 cans go to lid sealing of which 2 end up in a queue and they are sealed 1 at a time.
- Metal lids are loaded into the lid sorter, which feeds and turns the lids in the correct direction to the lid sealer to pick with its claw and close the jars.
- After filling, they are fed into a can turner that has the function of turning the can upside down once so that the air remaining in the can is heated and the jam's degrees become such that the entire contents of the can and air are preserved.
- The can then goes into a washing table with a water sprayer on the top, at the end of the table the cans pass through compressed air which dries the cans. The water that is supplied is drained through the table's conveyor belt into a container with a drain connected. The next step is label and date application, labeling is done separately in a machine that has a sensor that feeds the can as it is being applied, remaining label paper is collected on a separate roll. Date and batch are marked with a separate printer, either before or after labeling depending on the placement of the marking.
- The next step is packing on cardboard trays that the tray packer has in a compartment and feeds forward, folds and glues, then they go to wrapping where they pull a plastic film on the top of the tray and go through a heat tunnel to shrink the plastic against the cans and the tray. The last step is to pick off the trays.
The entire machine is set up with different settings and programs depending on the product or size being run.