Description:

Koat vine tomato processing system.
For unloading and loading the harvesting trolleys, destacking the boxes, feeding them to 2 weighing positions and palletizing.  

• Pusher and turning platform for the pipe rail harvesting trolleys
• Unloading and destacking for full boxes
• Automatic filling of harvesting trolleys with empty boxes. From long driven roller conveyor
• 2 weighing positions, one positions has a Klerks pusher for direct supply to palletizer without weighing, so no people are needed. (Space available to add more weighing stations)
• Supply conveyor to a flowpacking position (flowpacker not included)
• Conveyor to plate-palletizer 
  • palletizer suitable for pallets: 120x80cm & 120x100cm
• Suitable for plastic and cardboard boxes of 60 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm 
• Suitable for harvesting trolleys of 240 cm long. Pipe rails at the moment 55 cm centre - centre. 
• This system is suitable for processing 3 to 5 hectares of vine tomatoes. The machine has worked on a greenhouse of 3,1 hecatares

Other than vine tomatoes this unloading and weighing system can also be used for boxes with other fruit or vegetables, such as strawberries or long or spicy peppers.

Operation: 

The linked harvesting trolleys are automatically pulled (one by one) through the unloading system. The boxes of tomatoes are placed on the weighing line to the 2
weighing positions. The harvesting trolleys are filled with empty boxes. 
The weighed box is then placed on a roller conveyor belt from the weighing positions to the palletiser.

* Koat vine tomato processing system can be sold without palletizer

The machines comes from a vine tomato company that has switched to strawberries. The last year they sold all their tomatoes to a central location where the tomatoes where packed in retail packaging. So they didn’t weigh each box anymore. So the made the Klerks pusher that automatically pushes the boxes to the next roller conveyor to the palletizer. They did weigh each picking trolley instead of each box. 

This machine has worked in the past with a flowpack machine. The previous owner did do the flowpacking at his own company first. So the boxes are feed to the position where the flowpacking machines was placed. On the machine are 3 position to put boxes. The top conveyor is used to feed the empty boxes to an elevator / lift, that puts the empty boxes on the roller conveyor for the empty boxes. This all is a nice extra feature of this machine.