Personnel Protection with Fixed Blanking and Reduced Resolution
Application: Guarding operator's hands and fingers in a carton erector
Challenges: Must allow flat boxes to pass through uninterrupted
Solution: EZ-SCREEN Safety Light Curtain
Benefits: Fixed blanking can be set to ignore the boxes
To protect hands and fingers from the hazardous parts of a carton erector while allowing flat cartons into the machine
Description
The EZ-SCREEN safety light screen uses fixed blanking and reduced resolution (also called floating blanking) to allow flat boxes to enter the machine. Fixed blanking allows the safety light screen to ignore the boxes, and reduced resolution lets it ignore slight variations in the box height.
If the supply of boxes runs out, leaving the fixed blanked area clear, the EZ-SCREEN ligted curtain stops the machine so the operator can safely refill the carton supply.