Design and Development of Spoon Bundling Machine

Abstract

Packaging machinery is very much important for all packaging operations, involving primary packages as well as distribution packages. This includes many packaging processes which are mainly fabrication, cleaning, filling, sealing, combining, labelling, etc. In the present work, an effort has been made to develop an innovative machine which is fully automated and will stick the wooden ice cream spoons together as per the requirement. With the help of this machine, any number of ice cream spoons can be stick together and the bundles can be prepared. A simple gearbox and stepper motor mechanism used in the machine helps to reduce the labour cost and the time in making the bundles of the spoon. Star wheel, the heart of the machine on which the spoons will be stored in the pockets of the star wheel, and thereafter glue will be applied to these pockets to stick the spoons together. Counting sensor, proximity sensor, storage system, glue mechanism are some important parts of the spoon bundling machine. A heater is used in the glue mechanism to melt the food glue which is mainly named as hot melt glue. Here, in the present work, an effort has been made to develop the machine at the lowest possible manufacturing cost to reduce the overall cost, time and many other factors.