Ø100 turntable with console for DANA® 2000+

01 · FROM FILLER TO STATION

No more placing jars under the nozzle: you only load and unload

With the filling machine on its own, someone places each jar, waits for it to fill and takes it away. With the turntable, empty jars go into the feeding zone and the rotation carries them one by one to the filling point: the detector registers the jar, the table stops, the DANA doses and, when it has finished, the table turns again until the next jar arrives. Full jars gather in the centre, ready for lidding. The table holds 48 jars at a time, according to Swienty.

02 · THE CONSOLE

The filling machine is fixed to the table, not beside it

This is what sets it apart from the Ø 100 turntable without a console. The DANA 2000+ is fixed on the console, which adjusts horizontally and vertically: the horizontal setting centres the nozzle over the jar track, and the vertical one leaves a couple of centimetres between nozzle and jar. Filling machine and table become a single unit on the table's wheels and move together. With the turntable without a console, the 2000+ sits on a separate floor stand next to it, and lining it up is down to you. And the console is not sold separately: a turntable without one cannot be converted into this one later.

03 · DETECTION AND JAR SIZES

Photo sensor and wire switch, both included

It comes with both detectors, and you fit whichever suits your jar best. The wire switch works by contact: the wire touches the jar and the table stops. The photo sensor detects it without touching, from 1 to 30 mm away. Either way, you move the detector until the centre of the jar stops right under the nozzle, and repeat this when you change jar format.

It takes jars of Ø 30 to 115 mm and 30 to 190 mm tall, and the rail separating the feeding zone from the collection zone adjusts to each size. Rotation is adjustable from 1 to 12 rpm, and that speed, together with the jar size, sets the real pace of the line more than the pump's flow rate does. Before you order, measure the largest jar you plan to fill.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Depending on what you already have in your honey house:

You receive the turntable with its console, the photo sensor and the wire switch. It runs on 230 V and draws 184 W. Allow room for the 1 m table with the filling machine fitted, and for the person loading and unloading jars.