PowerFEED™

Besides core technologies for a fluent welding process, Can Man steps up to provide solutions for the blank delivery process to the welder.

POWERFEED™ is designed to close the gap between your slitter and your welder’s blank magazine in case, your slitter is situated on a different section, floor or building than your welders.

POWERFEED™ buffers and delivers a large amount of bodyblanks for a continuous operation of the welder even with few loading personal.

With POWERFEED™ large can editions can be produced flawlessly like never before.

The feeding process

Pallet preparation and delivery:
For delivery the blank stacks out of your buffer stack need to be loaded manually to custom size pallets prepared for the size of the blank. The loading section is equipped with ball bearings, lifting mechanism and blank adjustment to support easy stacking, positioning and separating of the heavy pallets in order to prevent jamming. By the push of a button, the whole stack bundle is lowered and delivered to the conveyor. After a few seconds the loading zone is free again to reload for a second bundle.

Fork lifter:
If a pallet arrives in the fork lifter section, it is adjusted in x and y axis and split from the following pallets to leave only one pallet stack in the fork lifter section. The other stacks remain cued on the delivery conveyor.

The fork lifter continuously loads blanks from the pallet stack and skims simultaneously through the blanks in a self-acting process. Skimming of the blanks is needed to break electrostatic load, which eventually let the blanks stick together and jam welder’s magazine. Now, the blanks are lifted and forwarded to the welder’s blank magazine. The loading process is immediately interrupted (stand by), in case the probe senses the pre adjusted maximum load of the blank magazine. If the welders blank magazine fill sinks below the mark. The fork lifter continues.

Ejection of empty pallets:
If a pallet is completely unloaded by the fork lifter, the eject mechanism of the fork lifter section detects the empty pallet and ejects it to the reverse conveyor leading the pallet back to the preparation section for reload.

The PowerFEED™ is easy to handle with the included operation panel. All the function are displayed with symbols to make the operation of the unit as intuitive as possible. The operation panel is a w-lan terminal and needs no fix connection cable.

The applied probes support the systems surveillance. The picture shows to blank magazines probes which constantly transmit the load status of the welders blank magazine.

The magnetic head module is the PowerFEED's core unit supporting blank skimming and blank stack separation for a accurate blank loading process. We provide different modules depending on the blank height processed.

The fork lift area is secured with a cage and a locker door. The active door-locker system stops the feeding operation if the door is opened by mistake.