Case Erectors Can Speed Up Production

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If you have a business that involves putting things in cases to ship you will need cases. The cases will have to be open on the top and sealed shut on the bottom. Case erectors take stacks of flat cases (aka boxes, cartons) and open them up so that products can be put in them and not fall out the bottom.


Of course if you send out one box a day maybe filled with something rare that no one can afford or something no one wants, boxes will not be a big issue. You just take a flat box off the stack and open it up and turn it upside down, trying not to crush or mess up the top flaps. Then you line up the bottom flaps and you use one of those big tape guns and put a big piece of tape across the bottom two flaps and voila!


However if you are sending out hundreds or thousands of boxes of canned vegetables or computer components you are going to want boxes fast. Your assembly line can't wait while somebody opens up one carton after another to put bottles of perfume or light bulbs or Pilsner glasses in. Okay, maybe it can wait. And your customers can wait. If that's what you want.


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... all likelihood if you are mass producing something you probably have an assembly line assembling the products automatically. You might have a loader to fill the cartons of ready-to-ship products automatically. So why would you want to slow the process down so close to the end by having a slow, labor intensive system for setting up the cases.


An automatic case erector does a number of things. It opens the cases, seals them and set them in position to be loaded faster than you can. It makes the cases square.


Erecting cases is one of those jobs that is easy for a machine but difficult for a human to do. The boxes are awkward. People don't have enough hands to hold the case and put tape on at the same time. They wrestle the box around and by the time they get the tape on the box isn't square. And then it's hard to fill. That's because those cardboard dividers are designed to fit in the box when it's perfectly square.


Not only do people not have enough hands but they are too delicate to be erecting cases. Everybody knows what a paper cut is. Some people have discovered that there is such a thing as a cardboard box cut. There is also such a thing as an allergic reaction to the cardboard. You do not want someone having a big sneezing fit in a room full of wine bottles and light bulbs. It's easier to get a few automatic case erectors and breathe easier.
For more information on Case Erectors or Case Closers please visit Gough & Co (Engineering) Ltd.