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Video: Spreader for bulk food products with pick-and-place

FROM PACK EXPO 2008: BluePrint Automation showcases a flap-spreading mechanism that converts bulk-fed hamburger patties into a flat mass-flow infeed to a pick-and-place mechanism.

Nov 11, 2008
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