The sales unit for the cartonned bottles is either a 3 or a 6 pack.  The Wraps UK AS75 machine automatically takes a complete row of bottles from the cartonning machine and then either shrink wraps them as a 3 or a 6 pack.

To do this the machine feeds the product from the side and an integral transfer pusher produces the collation and transfers the pack through the film.  Although the original request was for 20 collations per minute the Wraps machine has been wrapping at a line speed of 22.

Thanks to Wraps UK machines being designed and manufactured in the UK it was straightforwrd to meet Orbis’ request that a hand loading and sorting station be incorporated into the infeed of the machine.  This provided the production flexibility that Orbis required to wrap collations of products both with and without cardboard base trays.

Wraps UK has just completed the first model in a brand new range of two reel sleevewrappers. The AS75 shrink wrapper has been sold to a major UK packaged tea supplier for shrink wrapping shelf ready trays of tea leaf cartons. The tea is either in a 6 or 12 pack plastic tray which is automatically fed through the film web by conveyor.

The AS75 is the latest generation of sleeve wrapper produced by Wraps UK. Drawing on over twenty years of machine building experience, the AS75 incorporates many improvements incorporated through listening to the needs of customers. Manufactured in Wraps UK’s Wimborne factory, the AS75 is more robust than ever before but is still easy to move around the production floor if required.

Improvements include a high level, easy access perimeter guarding system for great safety and machine visibility. Machine control and diagnostics are via an ergonomically positioned LCD display which allows the operator unprecedented control over the wrapping process. Both film reels are now mounted after the film sealing jaw enabling simple and speedy film thread up.

Improvements with both the pneumatics and machine controls mean that it is suitable for production rates greater than 20 products per minute. The thicker, folded frame is extremely strong making the machine very smooth in operation. The solid knife sealing jaw has been extended enabling film widths of up to 700mm to be used.

The AS75, in combination with one of Wraps UK manufactured heat shrink tunnels, provides a low cost but high performance shrink wrapping packaging system.