Neocarton-Your Reliable Intermittent Cartoning Machine Manufacturer in China
The intermittent cartoning machine has pause time in the box opening, material pushing and sealing. Each step is carried out stably and precisely, increasing the packaging qualification rate. It flexibly adjusts specifications to package different types of products, such as socket type, adhesive type, and square bottom type cartons.Â
The core components use international leading brands such as Siemens and SMC to reduce the failure rate. The machine is widely used in pharmaceutical tablets, daily chemical products, and food bottles. As an experienced intermittent cartoning machine manufacturer, we are committed to customising high-quality intermittent cartoning machines according to your needs.
Our Products
The product falls from the top side and is then packed. The machine has a small floor area and a simple structure, greatly saving factory space, and is easy to maintain.Â
The product is pushed horizontally into the carton from the side opening. The machine can integrate seamlessly with the front-end production line, increasing entire production efficiency.Â
Features of Intermittent Cartoning Machine
The machine has short pauses in each key workstation, which provides enough time for bonding and pressing, visual inspection, and coding positioning, reducing the scrap rate.Â
The intermittent property avoids the friction and tilting during dynamic movement, which protects fragile goods and surface-sensitive products well.Â
It has a simpler structure than a continuous machine and switches production lines quickly. For manufacturers that have multiple product categories, it helps you take on more flexible orders.
Multiple feeding devices can be engaged from different angles during pause intervals, which helps you handle complex packaging and integrate many processes in one machine.Â
Low Maintenance Cost
Compared with a continuous cartoning machine, it has fewer mechanical components and a simple transmission system, so the maintenance cost and replacing vulnerable components are low. As a professional cartoning machine supplier, our intermittent cartoning machine has a small inertia force during operation, resulting in low mechanical friction. Common operators can handle daily maintenance, and the cost of replacing accessories is low.
Low Unit Energy Consumption Cost
The servo motor precisely controls each step of the machine and only consumes peak power at the startup moment. As a manufacturer that completes assembly in China, we equip each machine with energy-saving drive algorithms. During standby and low-load operation, it saves 20%-30% comprehensive energy compared to a continuous machine, which helps factories to reduce operation energy consumption.
Applications of Intermittent Cartoning Machine
The mechanical hand has enough time to push the product into the carton during the pause, ensuring even complex food packaging can be precisely packed. For fragile biscuits and sauce jars that are easy to overflow, smooth feeding reduces mechanical damage to food packaging.Â
The visual inspection system recognises the text and codes accurately on the medicine packaging because of pauses, meeting the compliance of the pharmaceutical industry. The machine is used in medicines, health supplements, and medical-grade disinfectants.
The packaging surface of daily chemical products uses exquisite cardboard and printing. The intermittent machine is gentler and more precise in picking up and pushing, avoiding high-speed and scratches. It is used for shampoo, hair conditioner, perfume bottles, and nail polish, etc.Â
Products have a stable center of gravity during packing because of intermittent packing, avoiding nozzles and pump heads rubbing against cartons due to continuous movement. It is used for cleaning agents, disinfectant sprays, air fresheners, insect repellents, etc.Â
- Specifications
| Production Speed | 30 – 80 cases per minute |
| Carton Size Range | L: 50-200mm W: 20-120mm H: 15-70mm |
| Paper Requirements | 250 – 350 g/m² (White cardstock or gray background whiteboard paper) |
| Drive System | servo motor drive |
| Control System | PLC + HMI |
| Sealing Method | Tuck-in or Hot-melt Glue |
| Noise Level | ≤ 75 dB |
The machine uses a precise sensing and servo-driven high-speed system to control the pressure of the push device. For fragile goods such as cosmetic boxes or electronic products, the machine equips flexible material buffer devices to prevent scratches or deformation during the box insertion process.
The mechanical wear of the intermittent cartoning machine mostly comes from the transmission system and the feeding system. We use electrical and pneumatic components from an international leading brand. The replacement cycle of vulnerable components is much longer than similar machines in normal maintenance.Â
The vacuum suction system and mechanical auxiliary support device are adjustable, which can effectively handle cartons of different thicknesses or slight deformations. The automatic card-blocking detection function in the feed port will report in time when jamming occurs, preventing machine damage or material waste.
The intermittent cartoning machine has a compact structure and is suitable for workshops with limited space. If you need a smaller machine, we can optimize the layout of the machine, shortening the body length while maintaining function completeness.Â
Not high. To increase the handleability of the machine, we incorporate preset parameter options for many products within the system. Most simple operations such as starting and stopping, as well as resetting, have been designed as graphical buttons.Â
ordinary workers can master the operation and routine maintenance in 1-2 days of practical training. This ensures a low personnel training cost and normal production even in the case of high staff turnover rates.
Support. The machine preserves the function expansion station when designing. You can integrate an automatic booklet folding machine. The folding methods it supports include single discount, c-discount, and z-discount. If you need customised folding types, please send your samples to check compatibility.
The Structure of The Intermittent Cartoning MachineÂ
Carton Preparation MechanismÂ
The mechanical arm with a vacuum suction device picks up the carton, unfolds it, and sends it into the pipe chain. This fully unfolds the carton and prevents machine jamming when stacking materials. Even if the carton deforms or gets damp because of the storage environment, the vacuum suction still provides enough suction force to unfold it.Â
Product Conveying and Sorting SystemÂ
The conveying system buffers the output speed of the front-end equipment and conveys the product to the entrance of the cartoning machine. This makes the packaging line smoother and avoids material blockage.Â
The guide rails and the baffles arrange products during pauses, ensuring products have a consistent posture and facilitating the pusher to push the product.
Pushing Device
The servo motor controls the pusher to smoothly push the product into the carton during pause intervals. During this process, if the pushing device senses any obstruction, the machine will automatically report an error to protect the product and the machine components from damage.
Sealing and Pressing Device
The paddles and rails folds teh cover plate of the carton. The hot melt adhesive spraying system seals the carton. After applying the glue, the pressing device will apply uniform pressure to the sealing and maintain it for a short time, ensuring the glue fully bonds and sets. The pressing device makes the product packaging flat and enhances the texture of appearance.
The Operation Process of Intermittent Cartoning Machine
The vacuum suction cup precisely picks up flat cartons and opens them. The product sorting and feeding device distributes products into the material troughs. Products are perfectly aligned through logic sensing technology and are pushed into cartons. Then they are inserted and sealed to ensure a tight and beautiful packaging. The fully loaded cartons are smoothly discharged through the discharge device.
The Difference between Intermittent and Continuous Cartoning Machine
This comparison reflects real-world feedback from dozens of manufacturers who switched from continuous to intermittent lines. As a professional cartoning machine, we help you match the machine to your actual production situation.
| Intermittent Cartoning Machine | Continuous Cartoning Machine | |
| Production Speed | 50-100 cases per minute | >150 cases per minute |
| Operation Mode | Intermittent Operation | Continuous Operation |
| Product Feeding Method | Static Blanking | Dynamic Blanking |
| Applicable Product | Products with large specifications | Products with small specifications and high production demand |
| Your Requirements | Small batch, multiple varieties
Focus on cost-effectiveness |
High-speed and stable production
Mass production |
| Single machine price | Low | High |
When Is An Intermittent Cartoning Machine The Only Option?
Products with High Surface RequirementsÂ
The pushing action is slow and stable, reducing the surface friction during high-speed pushing. The product is not forcibly stuffed into the carton, which reduces collision probability with the carton edge.Â
For products with a fragile surface, the machine has more time to ensure stable clamping because of pauses, thus avoiding scratching the surface. The unfolding, folding, and sealing processes are completed more thoroughly, resulting in a beautiful appearance and enhancing the texture of products.
Products with Complex FormsÂ
For irregular-shaped products, we use mechanical hands with flexible and multi-finger design, so that they can contact the surface in multiple points, which disperses prasping pressure and avoids falling off and toppling over. Intermittent machines offer the best operational stability during the grasping process, preventing toppling or misalignment caused by high-speed movement.
Frequently Switching SpecificationsÂ
Continuous cartoning machines have a more complex structure than intermittent ones and need to adjust a large number of mechanical components, chain pitches, and push rod positions, which takes a long time and requires professional guidance. If your products have many specifications and your production line needs to switch specifications frequently, an intermittent one offers shorter packing time.Â
High-precision Connection with Many ProcessesÂ
In dynamic packing, the coordinate offset of each process will accumulate when adding instruction manual, inkjet coding, labeling, and coding processes. This causes inkjet coding and label position offset, and it is difficult to achieve high-precision synchronization among different processes.
During the stationary period of each process, the accuracy of the coding position can reach ±0.5mm. Each process operates independently, and the deviation will not accumulate to the next process. You can adjust the stay time at each workstation according to your requirements.Â
Low-speed Production RequirementsÂ
If your daily output is less than 20000 boxes, an intermittent machine can meet your small-scale and medium-scale production demands. Continuous machines operate at high speed, and over 70% production capacity will be idle. Intermittent machines have a lower cost and simpler maintenance, which is a cost-effective choice for startup factories.Â
High-precision Detection SystemÂ
Some cartoning machines have strict requirements for the inspection system’s shooting time. For example, in the packaging of some medicines, the camera needs to pause for 0.5 seconds after each carton is filled to ensure the medicine is not crushed. An intermittent cartoning machine can precisely control pause time to meet the inspection requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.Â
