Elevator serves pallet conveyor
Clawsons required a system to handle 300kg stillages, double stacked, of unprepared stilton cheese wheels. The brief was to design a lift system to handle the unique stillages and needed to be capable of being reversible between the floors.
Conveyor Systems Limited (CSL) designed a custom elevator capable of handling the specially designed cheese stillages, with a reverse function in mind. For the system to work it had to be designed using double strand chain pallet modules. Clawson loaded the stillages on at a designated load point protected by custom made forklift bump stops. The stillages then index into the lift infeed.
This area is secured using both mesh fencing and light guards sensors.
The lift elevates the product onto the production mezzanine where it outfeeds onto a pallet turntable, this then discharges through a light guard and transits to the offload point ready for removal with a forklift truck.
The empty stillages can be sent back down by simply reversing the system when empty and delivering to ground floor.
The post production system works in a similar way, the portioned and wrapped cheeses are packed in cartons and loaded onto a conventional wooden pallet. The full pallets are loaded onto the pallet roller conveyor in the production area, these transit across the covered bridge over to the warehouse/dispatch building.
