#516A Rack & Stack

Revolutionary Automatic Nesting and Packaging Machine – 2.0

The Cameron Automation Rack & Stack

The Rack & Stack is the second generation of Cameron Automation’s Flooring Nesters. Designed to nest flooring strips up to 5″ wide and bundles up to 7.5′ long, the Rack & Stack is 20% more productive, takes up 1/2 the space, and requires less operator intervention than our previous designs.

What Does the Machine Do?

The Cameron Rack & Stack creates accurate nested flooring bundles. Graders feed random lengths of material into one end of the machine, and the Rack & Stack releases a consistent, nested bundle of flooring out the opposite end. Most importantly, it creates bundles the exact square footage you want to sell, increasing your profits by up to 2.5%. A 2.5% yield savings equates to one extra bundle for every 40 you ship!

What does the software do?

Cameron software is written and supported at our factory in Poughkeepsie, NY. This enables us to provide our customers with updates, changes, and upgrades quickly and often at no charge. In house programmers allow us to react to our customer’s needs rapidly. The software is intuitive, easy to understand.

The Cameron Automation Rack & Stack Software:

Designs bundles that meet the needs of your customers.
Measures each and every board so you have all incoming and outgoing data.
Controls shorts in each bundle by changing software parameters.
Prints bundle labels (optional).
Generates reports that include:
- Bundles produced
- Square feet
- Boards processed and more

How it Works

Infeed Conveyer (Grading Belt Level) Flooring strips of random length are fed from the grading belt onto the in feed conveyor and delivered to the measuring station. The measuring station singulates flooring strips, measures the length and delivers them to the lug chain. The servo lug chain (inclined) lifts flooring strips from the measuring station to the first and second stops at the beginning of the sorting section.
Rack & Stack Nester (Sorting Station) The rack (with slots) moves up and down continuously delivering the proper strips to build a bundle. When the rack stops, a flooring strip drops out and new flooring strip drops in. With 12 available slots the number of combinations to build accurate lengths and accurate bundles is in the thousands, hence higher yield!
Bundling Table and Outfeed Conveyer The bundling table is in almost continuous motion gathering and aligning rows and layers of flooring. When a bundle is complete, it is pushed onto the out feed conveyor and delivered to the strapping system.
Automatic Strapping System The automatic strapping system can be programmed for different strap spacing and different bundle lengths. Strapped bundles are then delivered to the out feed rack for temporary storage.

Information on the Out-feed Systems for the Nester can be found below

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Advantages

Advantages over Hand Nesting

Eliminates Repetitive Manual Labor
- Nesting Bundles by Hand is a Labor Intensive Job that the Auto-Nester can Solve, reducing employees exposure to repetitive motion
Improves Yield and Increases Margins
- Hand nesters tend to oversize bundles, by as much as 3%. The Auto-Nester accurately measures the length of each and every board to know which sequence of boards will create the most accurate row
- It keeps track of all rows and is able to size rows as it nears the end of a bundle to create a bundle nested extremely close to the target square footage
Consistent Bundles
- The Auto-Nester will build bundles that not only are more consistent mathematically, they also look more consistent. This will create the perception of a higher quality bundle
Quality Control of Bundles
- Tracks Items such as average board length, number of shorts, and bundle square footage, which can all be controlled and adjusted by the software
- Software alerts the operators of short rows or bundles so the quality of the bundles can be managed bundle by bundle instead of by a random sampling
Software Accurately Tracks all Incoming and Outgoing Data for Production Reports

How it Works

Flooring strips of random length enter the machine where they are measured for length. Strips are released by two sets of stops onto the main conveyor. At precisely the right time, a strip is scooped off of the main conveyor by an innovative lifting system. A computer processes the lengths of the strips to determine which combination of strips will produce an accurate length row. The machine constantly picks up and puts down strips to create rows. Rows are accumulated on the outfeed to create layers on the outfeed table. Layers are stripped off of the outfeed table to create bundles. Completed bundles are pushed off of the outfeed onto a conveyor, ready for strapping and packaging.

Flooring Questionnaire

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Small Bundle Outfeed System

Automatic Belt, Automatic Strapper, and an Automatic Kicking Station

Complementing the Cameron Flooring Nester, the Cameron Automation Automated Strapping Line saves labor to the final step in your nested bundle flooring line. Using a touch screen interface to specify the length of bundles and number of straps needed, the conveyor line automatically advances the nested bundle from the Flooring Nester to the strapping machine, straps the appropriate number of straps and then moves the bundle ahead to the kicker station. The bundle is then kicked into the accumulating station. A single operator can manage several systems which reduces labor and increases profitability.

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#516A Rack & Stack

Revolutionary Automatic Nesting and Packaging Machine – 2.0