Compere Ling

Air Conveying

Full Cartons

The Ling Air System provides a rapid and trouble-free link between production processes. In numerous and varied industries throughout the world, Ling Air Conveyors have brought substantial savings in maintenance, labour costs and machine downtime. Ling Air Full Carton Conveyors are similar to the empty carton conveyors, and offer the same features. The major difference is the product guide rail construction. In a typical application, two bagging machines linked to a single cartoner produce cereal cartons at 130 cartons per minute. These cartons are elevated by means of an inclined belt to a high level air cushion conveying system which transports product up to 1000g in weight at high speed to a case packer situated away from the production area.

Special features can be built into these systems, for instance, by the installation of a dump gate and batching controls product can be either diverted to a second case packer or hand packing area. The Air Cushion Conveyor on this type of installation has within its design the facility to allow the cartoner to rinse out product should there be problems with downstream equipment. The Ling Air System can be designed to convey various sizes of pack along the same track. This is achieved by fitting fan motor speed inverters and PLCs to control the differing conveying pressures. On long systems side gripping metering units are positioned in front of bends to remove the chance of edge to edge product damage during accumulation and catch up.