Weight labelling according to weight category, under and over-weight 

Cellophane-packed ready-cut cheese

11 - 13 kg cheese blocks - edam, gouda, tilsiter and other specialities
are conveyed from the packaging station to a labour-saving fully automatic labeller (GV) [1], where they are weighed, labelled and sorted into correct weight, underweight and overweight categories.

The correctly sized blocks are removed from the conveyor end station two at a time and placed in maturing boxes by a robot; once these boxes are filled (capacity: 32 blocks each), a totalling label is applied to each box; at the same time, a box sheet is produced on the matrix printer opposite (individual weights and total weight). The blocks which differ from the correct weight are fed via a switch [2] to a special conveyor, where they are placed by hand in waiting maturing boxes. Total labels for these boxes are dispensed automatically by the labeller (GV) [3]. The boxes are transported to maturing rooms and delivered after the maturing process to bulk buyers for further processing. The daily production volume is approx. 35 t.
 

Fig. 1 The cheese blocks are transported on a separate conveyor belt to avoid obstructing the through feed, and are transferred smoothly to the labeller.

Fig. 2 The robot does the heavy work: it picks up 2 cheese blocks at a time by suction and deposits them carefully in the maturing box. 

Labels   (BBL 92) [4], 58 x 43 mm, left: individual label including article designation, net weight, date and encoded in-house data  

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