Multi-fill Depositers for Ready Meals

Multi-Fill Inc. of Salt Lake City, USA, represented in the UK and Ireland by F. Jahn & Co. Ltd., design and build a range of depositors, named MPF, for products which have previously proved very difficult to fill by machine, such as cooked pasta and rice. The MPF design features a pneumatically operated volumetric filling head, which is controlled by a PLC. The system is capable of depositing precise portions of products into trays, cartons or pouches. The latest UK installation is at the Grimsby site of Headland Foods, where an MPFSC120-01 depositor is filling cooked chilled rice and spaghetti at speeds of up to 100 packs per minute on a new ready meals line, commissioned in 2008. New features for 2009 include upgraded adjustment for the filling head, making the Depositor much easier to adjust for line height variation. Another innovation is a dual-drive belt system that allows positive traction of the product conveyor belt. The conveyor belt itself is now available in food-grade blue plastic. All these new features can be retrofitted to older machines. Multi-Fill can also offer their clients a customised product distribution system that allows its MPFSC120-01 automatic depositor to work with multi-lane machines, such as thermoformers or tray filling/sealing lines. One MPF filling head can now deal with up to eight containers in various combinations or patterns. Alternatively, the distribution system can be used as a stand-alone unit working, for example, directly under a multi-head weigher.

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