Columbia Machine: Conveyor infeed system

Columbia Machine (Vancouver, WA) introduces a heavy-duty conveyor infeed system designed to palletize bulky shrink-wrapped phone books. The floor-level configuration replaces manual stacking lines in publishing plants where heavy books can cause muscle strain and repetitive motion injuries.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Jul 31, 2002

System can run at speeds to 40 packs/min. A 2-lane conveyor system merges books from 2 shrink-wrap tunnels into the infeed of the palletizer.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

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