Tray Venting System

 

 

The tray venting system is an intermittent motion offline tray punching system; one of many custom systems offered by Graphic Packaging International. This system is designed for mid-speed automatic application of punching venting holes into plastic trays after the thermoforming process.

The tray venting system is built to specification and is designed to handle a range of square or rectangular plastic trays.

Benefits

Specialized flight system to run different size and style trays with varying hole punch locations
Indexing flighted conveyor for feeding the trays through the vent punching station
Air cylinder powered double-acting hole punching unit with tooling for each tray

Specifications

Machine Features
  • Dual sided, 9” arm reciprocating vacuum placer for denesting trays
  • Indexing flight conveyor for feeding the trays through the vent punching station
  • Air cylinder powered double-acting hole punching unit with tooling for each tray
  • Specialized flight system to run different size and style trays with varying hole punch locations
Speeds
  • Speeds up to 35 trays per minute on a single head and 70 trays per minute on a two-head system
Product Configuration
  • Single lane of trays
Models
  • Standard: Single Head
  • Custom: Dual Head
Electric and Air Requirements
  • Control Voltage: 24 VDC
  • Supply Voltage: 120 VAC, Single-Phase
  • Nema 12 rated
  • 80 PSI clean dry air, CFM dependent on vacuum system specified (equivalent to class 3 or better)
  • CFM dependent on vacuum system specified
Tray example for tray venting system