Skip to content
Centreline

Bespoke machinery

Row Aligner & Gating Machine

Product arrives on the belt at random. The RA-8 guides it into lanes and gates it out in straight rows, ready for the pie packing machine, case packer or next process.

Products
Donuts, pies, pastries
Lanes
To suit your product
Gate
Pneumatic
Built in
Berwick Melbourne
RA-8 row aligner and gating machine with its guarding and stainless base
Donuts arriving at random and being guided into lanes
Lanes of donuts seen from above, held at the gate

From a random flow to straight rows

Fryers, ovens and coolers don’t deliver product in neat rows. Donuts, pies and pastries come off them scattered across the belt, which makes the next step hard to automate.

The RA-8 fixes that. Stainless lane guides steer each product into a lane as the belt carries it through. At the end of the lanes, a pneumatic gate holds the product back and releases it as a straight row across the belt. Each row is square and evenly spaced, ready for a pie packing machine, a case packer or the next process.

Built around your product

We built the first machine for donuts. The same design suits pies, pastries and other round products. We set the number of lanes, the guides and the gate timing to suit your product and the machine after it.

  • Wide modular plastic belt, easy to clean
  • Stainless lane guides, adjustable for product size
  • Pneumatic row gate, timed to the next machine
  • Stainless base with doors, glazed guarding and a touch screen

Want to see it working with your product? Send us a sample and we’ll run a trial.

Donuts waiting in the gate pockets
Straight rows of donuts leaving the gate on the blue belt
Donuts spaced evenly in one lane
Pneumatic cylinders driving the row gate
Front of the machine with stainless doors and controls

Where it fits in your line

Every station is a machine we build or integrate. Click one to see what it does, then send the line to an engineer.

Swipe to follow the line →

Every line starts with a conversation.

Tell us what you make and what you need to automate. Our engineers will come back with options, layouts and a quote.