ServoForm Lollipop Depositor

The ServoForm™ Lollipop Depositor is a further development in Baker Perkins’ world leading range of confectionery processing equipment.  With greater production flexibility than the traditional die forming process for both ball and flat lollipops, depositing offers a profitable new market opportunity for a product with high consumer appeal.  The unique underband servo design improves output capacity and hygiene levels, whilst patented stick placing technology streamlines the whole process with low labour requirements.

Product Versatility

• Unique, high quality ball and flat lollipops with higher clarity, smoother ‘mouth feel’ and better flavour release
• Solid, centre filled, two, three and four colour striped, layered, and 3D shape lollipops can all be made
• Added-value pharmaceutical, functional and sugar free lollipops can also be produced

Productivity

• Accurate shape and weight control minimises scrap rates
• Fine tuning ‘on-the-run’ of operation
• Automatic stick feeding, placing and detecting technology minimises labour requirements
• Continuous process for minimal product wastage

Ease of Operation

• Full PLC control with touchscreen HMI
• Three-axis servo control ensures complete command of the depositing process
• Easy adjustment from single to multi component/colour production

Underband Drive

• All drive components are mounted on the machine (underband) rather than on the depositing head
• Unique underband design achieves higher depositor running speeds to maximise output capacity
• Minimises maintenance requirements and reduces machine footprint
• Machine is hydraulic free, thus avoiding risk of oil leakage onto product area
• Open hopper area for ease of maintenance, cleandown and access for product feed
• Three axis servo control ensures complete control over the depositing process with fine tuning ‘on the run’ of depositor operation
• Optional 4th axis servo control available 

Process Control

• Full PLC control and touch sensitive HMI provide full process visualisation, recipe management and alarm handling
• Recipe control system enables deposit patterns and weights to be set at the touch of a button
• Ability to integrate with upstream and downstream equipment for control of the complete cooking and depositing process. Also supervisory (SCADA) and other high level systems.

Automatic Lollipop Stick Feeding, Placing and Detecting

• Proven automatic stick placing enables higher outputs to be easily achieved and significantly reduces labour requirements
• Patented technology
• Detection systems for unreleased/jammed sticks prevent risk of unplanned stoppages
• Synchronisation between stick feeder bar and mould bar ensures repeatable and highly accurate placement of sticks into candy moulds

Single Tier Cooling Tunnel

• Simple operation and maintenance, easy to clean with high hygiene levels and excellent access into tunnel area 
• Low maintenance product discharge station

Low Retention Hopper

• Reduced hopper retention times with easy product feed and reduced risk of process inversion
• Independently controlled oil-heated hoppers ensure even distribution of heat to minimise risk of burning and discolouration and optimum process control
• Self-draining hoppers improve product flow and reduce cleandown time
• Unique manifold design with guided piston arrangement avoids product tailing and enables higher running speeds

Mould Design

• Proven 2-part hinged mould arrangement allows a range of profiles, including balls and 3D shapes, to be produced
• Unique mould construction and continuous mould circuit ensures optimum heat transfer, reduced cooling times and reduced energy usage
• Solid construction provides dimensional stability and ejection efficiency
• FDA approved mould coatings

Machine width	Pops/minute	Depositing Strokes/minute	Piece weight(nominal)	Ouput/hour(nominal)
ServoForm Lollipop 600	800	44.4	10.5	500kg
ServoForm Lollipop 950	1332	44.4	10.5	840kg

Innovation Centre

Baker Perkins’ Process Innovation Centre in Peterborough
is available to all our customers for development of new
products and processes, in conditions of total confidentiality,
with the support of our experienced food technologists and
technical partners.

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