Design and Development of Automatic Bag Placer Machine

Abstract

Packing of cement is the most critical operation of the cement industry. At present most cement companies use roto packer for cement packing. The basic process is to manually insert Polypropylene (PP) bags on the nozzle of the roto packer, with automatic system of roto packer the bags are filled with required quantity of cement and the filled bags are transferred for truck loading via conveyor belt system or slider. To deduct the manual process of inserting PP bags on to the nozzle of roto packer a bag guiding machine is placed before roto packer. Bag guiding machine has 17 fork like containers where empty PP bags in the bunch of 15 to 17 approximately are to be placed manually in each.The present work aims to develop fully automatic bag placer machine to eliminate manual process. For placing the bundle of empty bags into the bag guiding machine, bags are collected into the bag collector of automatic bag placer machine and placed into the containers of the bag guiding machine. A study on requirement has been done and a conceptual mechanism has been developed. Automatic bag placer has been fabricated and tested. However it needs further modifications to deploy with the rotopacker.