Conveyors and robots for manufacturing hamburgers
Summary:
The goal of the project is to use a robot and conveyors to automatically place the top halves of burger buns on mini-hamburgers.
Technical description:
The conveyor has small cleats separating:
- The bun tops
- The burgers, consisting of bread, meat, cheese and sauce (ketchup and burger sauce in this case)
The burger ingredients are arranged manually by operators upstream of the conveyor.
A robot uses a vacuum system to pick up the bun tops and place them on the burgers. The burgers then pass on to a second conveyor that sends them for packaging.
At the customer’s request, the conveyors and the robot structure are suitable for the daily cleaning required in the agri-food sector (stainless steel and easy to dismantle).
Products transported:
- Burger buns weighing 5 to 20 g
The line operates three seven-hour shifts, seven days a week.
The rate requested by the customer is 45 burgers per minute on four tracks, or 10,800 burgers per hour.
Application:
The assembly can be used for automatically positioning other products, such as bagel lids, sandwich tops or any other products consisting of multiple layers.
