A four-function flow chain: buffering, spacing, merging and a final buffer, each handled by its own conveyor, seven in total.
End-of-Line Single Filing System | Two Lanes to One
36,000 cups an hour, two lanes coming in, one lane going out. At the end of a packaging line, products almost never arrive in the shape the next machine wants.
A shrink wrapper sends cups out in two side-by-side lanes. The x-ray inspection unit that follows it accepts one cup at a time. An end-of-line single filing system lives in that gap and decides whether the line keeps flowing or stalls at the finish. Aliş Makina designs and builds this transition as one engineering whole.
Flow Management and Line Features
Single filing is not one conveyor; it is an ordered chain of functions. Each stage does one job before handing the product to the next.
The critical decision is removing back pressure. Press two lanes straight into one and the trailing cups push the ones ahead; a thin-walled cup cannot take that force and dents at the merge. Instead, the flow is buffered first, the spacing between products is opened step by step, and only then are the two lanes combined. Each cup enters the single file on its own, not because the cup behind it pushed.
Applications
A single filing system earns its place at the handover between end-of-line packaging and final inspection. It is built for plants that must bring light, thin-walled products down to one lane at high speed, without bruising them.
End-of-line handling of light food products such as cup dairy and coffee
Feeding from a shrink wrapper exit to an x-ray inspection unit
Transitions that link a two-lane packaging output to single-file inspection
Plants that need a closed-surface, cleanable line for food hygiene
Integrated Systems
A single filing system never works alone; it ties into the stations at both ends of the line. Aliş Makina integrates layout, controller and drive from a single source.
Application Areas
Technical Specifications
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Line architecture | 7-conveyor chain (2 accumulation + 3 lane-opening + 1 merging + 1 collecting) |
| Line speed | 72 products per minute (2 lanes), about 36,000 cups/hour |
| Accumulation conveyor | 2 units, 4,000 x 300 mm |
| Lane-opening conveyor | 3 units, 500 x 300 mm |
| Merging conveyor | 1 unit, 1,700 x 800 mm |
| Collecting conveyor | 1 unit, 2,000 x 300 mm (idle roller) |
| Belt family | Intralox S1000 / S900 closed-surface modular belt |
| Structure material | AISI 304 stainless steel, hygienic design |
| Belt top height | About 900 mm |
| Drive / bearings / plastics | SEW Eurodrive, FAG/SKF, PE1000/Delrin |
| Certification | CE conformity |
From two lanes to one, without bruising the product
If you face a similar end-of-line constraint, we treat it not as picking a conveyor from a catalog but as an engineering problem spanning the whole flow, from the shrink exit to the x-ray feed.
