Distribution Continuous Slide (DCS) discharge station

The Syntegon Distribution Continuous Slide (DCS) is a flexible discharge station for round cookies, crackers and biscuits. The modular discharge system consists of one or more stations arranged one behind the other. These are equipped with belt slides for gentle handling, minimising mechanical stress and thus reducing product breakage and loss. Providing pack-style flexibility, the unit distributes cookies onto belt legs for packing them flat or on their edge into pile, slug or tray packs. Furthermore, the system’s guard-free design provides operators with unrestricted process visibility, safe accessibility and easy cleaning.

Cookies, biscuits and crackers are taken from the cooling conveyor and are continuously distributed to the leg belts. They are neither pushed nor dropped but slide over the belts and are thereby protected from any mechanical stress. This reduces product loss and leads to efficiency gains, especially when handling sensitive products.

The higher the speed of the belt slide, the more cookies are transferred to downstream leg belts by the DCS. On the individual legs, a further belt slide arranges the straight product stream into an S-shape. This arrangement ensures the cookies and crackers are evenly distributed across the entire width of the belt, preventing them from wedging or overlapping. A homogeneous product stream is created, providing a constant feed to the packaging machine.

Other features include flexibility for varying formats and changing production output, and easy cleaning thanks to the vibration-free design.