Strapping Machine manipulates the coil and applies radial straps in a semi-automatic manner.

Double-End Automatic "Turret" Coil Stacker: Radially strapped coils are sent from the Strapping Machine to an Automatic "Turret" Coil Stacker where coils are automatically stacked onto a pallet positioned on a Coil Sorting Turntable. Coils conveyed into the Turret Stacker are automatically positioned on the Stacker centering table. The coil is gripped from the ID and OD and transported to the Turntable stacking station where the coil is deposited onto an awaiting pallet or coil package and released. The Lafayette Steel Coil Stacker is a "Turret" design with two (2) independent ID-OD stacking heads mounted on a 180-degree rotating base. The benefit of the Double-End "Turret" Stacker is coil handling speed. One stacking head grabs a coil from the centering table while the opposite stacking head simultaneously stacks a coil on the Turntable. As soon as a coil is stacked, the Turret Stacker rotates 180-degrees moving the next coil to the Turntable while the empty stacking head moves to grab the next coil. Simultaneous grabbing and stacking sequence and elimination of "empty" Stacker return travel makes the Turret Stacker nearly twice as productive as a single head reciprocating "wagon" type Coil Stacker. A "multi-grab" program allows the Turret Stacker to accumulate several coils before transporting them to the Turntable. The multi-grab program makes the Turret Stacker even more productive.

Turret Stacker carries a "batch" of coils to the Turntable while the opposite empty head travels back to retrieve a coil from the centering table. Double stacking heads with "multi-grab" programming makes the Turret Stacker extremely efficient.

Coil Sorting Turntable: The Turntable rotates CW & CCW to sort coils into customer packages. Turntable stations are color coded to make coil package sorting quick and easy. Pressing a color coded pusbutton commands the corresponding color Turntable segment to travel the "shortest way" to the stacking station. A hydraulic pushoff discharges finished coil packages from the Turntable.

Turret Stacker stacking a wide slit coil onto a pallet located on the Turntable.

Rotating Pallet Banding Station: Finished coil packages are pushed off the Turntable onto a Pallet Banding Station where the coils are strapped to the pallet. The Pallet Banding Station rotates to make banding faster and easier. After the package is banded, the Table rotates to align with additional Runout Conveyor onto which the package is discharged.

Rotary Pallet Bander speeds strapping coils to the pallet.

Exceptional productivity, outstanding support, & bullet-proof reliability, made Lafayette Steel Sales' selection of a Braner/Loopco Automatic Slit Coil Packaging System a "no-brainer".

Lafayette Steel Sales
2407 North Ninth Street Road
Lafayette, IN 47903
phone: (765) 423-5371  fax: (765) 742-2743