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Why Do We Need to Flip A Load At most printing plants for instance, the lap codes on the signatures must face up before they are fed into the bindery pockets. When a pallet load of signatures comes from the pressroom, the lap code is not always facing up. This condition would generally require the bindery personnel to flip the bundles of signatures before placing them in the bindery pockets. In order to prevent turning the bundles by hand, the inverter is used. A whole pallet load is thus turned at once.
A pallet load of printed material for instance can be placed by fork-lift in the inverter and then be secured by the machine's clamping plate and easily turned over mechanically, thus eliminating the necessity of repetitive, manual handling.
What is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a fairly common and painful problem of the wrist. It is frequently seen in individuals who perform tasks with their hands that are both strenuous and repetitive, such as turning over bundles of paper day after day. This continued overuse causes compression of the median nerve as it passes through the "carpal tunnel" within the wrist.
This syndrome is first evident when the worker experiences burning and tingling. It progresses to an aching pain that may travel to the arm, the shoulder and even the chest. The pain is increased with use of the hand. Sensation can become impaired when the involved muscles eventually weaken.
Conservative treatment can relieve some of the pain but surgery seems the only way to achieve lasting relief.
This poses a continuing problem within the industry. Valuable manpower is lost, as trained employees have to give up their positions. Worker's Compensation claims increase as more and more employees seek medical attention.
So if improving employee health and increasing plant efficiency is of primary importance then the Cherry's Pallet Inverter well may be the answer.
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At many printing plants it was felt that holding a pallet in the machine could increase efficiency. By equipping the inverter with a pallet holder this was achieved. This system allows the inverter to retain the top pallet from the previously inverted load. This retained pallet will then become the bottom pallet for the next load. This eliminates the need to manually replace the pallet as each load is inverted.
By using the inverter, heavy loads can be turned with the push of a button. No more turning bundles of paper or loads of anything by hand.
Cherry's offers a full range of customized process control systems, ranging from simple manually operated interface panels to fully automatic PC or computerized control systems that require minimal operator intervention. Systems may be designed for stand-alone operation or may be fully integrated with existing plant controls. Each control package is custom engineered.
FS 180 degree inverter with dual clamping plates. Designed to handle load heights that are short to very tall. This entire process can be done at ground level when installed in a pit.
This Model FS Inverter with a standard pendant control. It's purpose is a simple one but its merits are outstanding. Logs of signatures resting on pallets are placed in the machine and raised from a horizontal plane to a vertical plane. Similarly bundles of signatures are placed in the inverter and turned 180 degrees, so that they rest on the opposite side. This allows for easy placement of the printed materials into the bindery pockets.
The World Champion Green Bay Packers are and forever will be the pride of all of Wisconsin. So as a special surprise for the plant's workers, Cherry's put aside its usual orange paint job and painted this inverter in Packer green and gold and decked it out with decals of the big "G" logo. The crew not only love what the machine does for them, they love how it looks. I doubt that Pallet Inverters will show up in the gift shop at Lambeau Field but this one sure would catch a few eyes if it did.
Flipping pallet loads of paper has evolved to a high art for the sheet fed printing industry. The equipment engineers for this printing plant are responsible for spearheading this pallet inversion system. In the past, material handlers would deliver the signatures to the press personnel upside down, this would require the bindery people to manually flip and jog the lifts of signatures.
Currently these Inverters operate in printing plants all over the world. A list of customers includes: Banta Publishing, Brown Printing, Divisions of World Color Press, Fry Communications, Moore Business Forms, R.R. Donnelly & Sons Co., Menasha, Quad Graphics, Quebecor World, Weyerhauser, Smurfit-Stone, Times Printing, Rock-Tenn, Simplex Products, Mead Paper to name just a few.
Logs of printed material laying horizontal on a pallet are easily stood up using our standard Inverter
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R/R Models:
Clamping table secures the load. The inverter then reclines the load 90 degrees and rotates it 180 on a horizontal axis. Ideal for both wide and heavy loads.
This model may also be modified for use with conveyor-fed systems.
A Pallet Inverter can save many man hours of laborious lifting and turning. It helps tremendously in reducing back strain and carpal tunnel syndrome amongst the plant workers.
In many cases the standard Pallet Inverter as described here is sufficient to do the job but some plants have requested adaptations that more readily suit their individual needs.
The beauty of the system is that it will work with any height loads. You put them in one end regardless of the height and configuration of the load, and it discharges them out the other end ready to go to the bindery or storage area.
Corrugated and Board manufacturer need to sort damage board or turn large board over before going into the die cutter. Other may need to print graphics on the opposite side. Lamination operations need to turn large panels for film application process.
R/R MK2 PILE TURNER
The Pile Turner is designed primarily for low volume applications where floor-level-loading is essential. Although able to handle almost all palletized goods, it would mostly be used to invert piles of printed paper or cardboard. The jaw opening ranges between 15" and 55" so it is ideal for short stacked loads and would not normally be rated over 2600lb Cap. The Pile Turner has a secondary function for squaring loads. When fitted with a side wall it can be turned through 90 degrees and tilted into a 'V'.
- Light weight 180 degree inverter with twin clamping tables which open flush to the floor.
- It clamps and reclines under hydraulic power and revolves easily by hand. The Pile Turner can be supplied either with hand lever controls or extended push buttons.
- The machine is stable by design and can be relocated by fork lift truck, but would be secured to the floor during normal operation.
F/S * R/R * G/L * 90°Tippers
F/S * R/R * G/L * 90°Tippers
Logs of printed material that are stacked and laying horizontal on a pallet are easily stood up with our 90° end to end tipper up-ender.
Bands are cut, top cap removed and paper roll or coil is rolled out of tipper at ground level.
This custom designed tipper is used for tilting 8' rolls of paper. The paper is used for making baby diapers, so the roll will need to be tilted 90° from core vertical to core horizontal and rolled out of the tipper by its own energy force for placement into the coil un-winder. The use of a hydraulic tilting table below the roll will provide the energy force needed in this operation.
