Cute. Reminds me of the way .22 target ammo is made (also in 10 X 10 loading plates that self meter). There, with the much higher volume other refinements are done like a series of plates that would self orient and load the carts (drop them through a slot based on the heavy end going in before the light one). A worker puts a large hand full of empties on the top, sweeps them around until all the slots are filled, sweeps the excess off into the bin again before pulling a center plate from the pack that allows the case to drop down heavy end first. Very high precision at good speed can happen this way with a good operator...better precision than bigger, more expensive, automatic loading systems used for standard .22 ammo....or they would do it that way.
I bet it's kind of a mess if it goofs up? I knew a guy once that worked for the company that made the machines Planters puts the peanuts in the little plastic bags. Bunches of peanuts are literally shot into the air with an air jet as the bag is wrapped around the bunch and gets sealed off before it's cut loose from the strip of plastic. At blinding speed. He had fun videos. Lots of sensors to shut it down, but still when it happened you'd end up with 25 pounds of peanut butter and shredded plastic and stuff.....everywhere. He had high speed photos (10,000 frames a second) trying to figure out why. Turns out a single peanut usually does, it gets loose from the bunch and fails to be included inside and usually bounces out (workers would collect them later), every once in a while it bounce back the wrong way, distorts the tape being fed it a bit....... Wow, talk about a mess! A peanut butter explosion in slow motion. Make a great U-tube.
A few years back I taught a troubleshooting class for the maintenance guys at the local Ghirardelli Chocolate plant. Turns out the make the world's supply there, or did at the time at least. Fun process, really. They're molded in trays of corn starch which is later shaken off and recycled. They take in raw beans, mix and roast them all right there. They have the same sort of jams....only in this case that's mighty expensive chocolate in there......everything's already sanitary.....they pull 5 gallon buckets of shards out and sell 'em in the shop in bags. I've watched impromptu teams of workers sorting through at flank speed, chattering away as such folks to when 'in the groove' at work. I ate pretty good for a while....
Fun. Need someone to come run your machine? I won't need much training and I'll work for scraps.....
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