Design and automation of elevator type product feeding systems for food packaging machines

Nowadays food packaging machine manufacturing is one of the fast growing sector in theworld. As known, developments in the main sectors cause the developments related subsectors.Considering one packaging machine we can say that this packaging machine is constituted bytwo basic units as dosing system which prepares and sends the portion to the packagingmachine and packaging machine which produces bags.Of course it is the key point to support these basic units with some additional equipment forachieving effective working. For example, taking the produced bags away from the machineand packing them without effecting the capacity of the machine negatively can be seen justone example.The most important one of these additional units is product feeding system. The mission ofthis unit is to feed the dosing unit of the main packaging machine with requested quantity andon time. Better quality feeding causes more effective and healthy working of the system.Manufactured for achieving this goal, feeding systems must be produced according to thehygiene conditions and environment and operator safety.Specially designed, according to the product, these systems are trended elevator feedingsystems dealing with the fast development in plastic and rubber bands.Designed system will be a Band Elevator Feeding Unit.Keywords: Packaging machine, dosing unit, elevator feeding system, environment andoperator safety, hygiene.