Cavity depositing

Traditional equipment struggles to find and fill the cavities of a product. FoodJet does not. The vision technology reads where each product sits on the conveyor and the depositor places the material exactly on the right spot. That makes a whole new range of products and applications available for your production line, without you having to line products up by hand.

You do not have to worry about material piling up in the centre of a cavity or failing to reach the edges. The depositor places a large number of small drops that fill the hole completely, even when the cavities are small or have a complex shape. You define the deposit pattern yourself in the FoodJet Designer Studio software, so the result matches your product exactly.

FoodJet depositors place material into pockets that other depositors cannot reach:

• Cavities that are very small, such as the pockets in a waffle
• Products that are randomly positioned on the conveyor
• Two different materials deposited one after the other in the same product

Every FoodJet depositor is built for its specific task and applies the right amount of material in each cavity. There are two ways the system knows where to deposit:

• When products are well aligned across the conveyor, a trigger sensor picks up each product as it moves along the line, so the depositor knows exactly when to apply the material.
• When products are misaligned, the FoodJet vision system detects the position and any rotation of each product, calculates where every deposit has to go and makes sure it lands correctly.

See cavity depositing applied to real products. Each one uses the same vision-guided approach, tuned to a different product and material.

Want to raise line speed and add something to your product that was impossible to produce until now? Tell us about your product and your line. We test your own product first, so you see the result before you decide, and from that test we advise on the right setup and next steps.