Mechanical cutting system that turns rejected fries back into usable product
The Avalon Reclaim System is a modular yield-recovery solution that recovers valuable product from the reject stream of an existing sorting line. Suitable for sorting machines of any brand.
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The Avalon Reclaim System can be installed directly after a defect stream to remove only the damaged part of a product. The system can also be expanded with a reinspection step that first recovers falsely rejected product before the remaining defects are removed.
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OptiServe designs, supplies and installs the system as an integrated solution, tailored to the customer’s existing sorting installation.
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Modular, brand-independent and scalable
70% yield
Recover yield from what you already throw away, without replacing your existing line. The system works with the reject stream already in place. No new sorting line is required, nor any investment in additional cameras or software. The system recovers value from a stream that would otherwise be completely lost.
Compatible with sorting machines of any brand
The system works downstream of the reject stream of any optical sorter, not just OptiServe’s Xcalibur. This makes the Avalon Reclaim System an attractive solution for any processor with an existing sorting installation, regardless of the supplier.
Scalable
With the Avalon Reclaim System, you can move from a simple Glide treatment to a reverse sorting configuration, where falsely rejected product is recovered first, followed by the removal of the remaining defects. One system logic, multiple levels of intervention.
Properties
The Glide is based on the principle of the rotating drum and cutting chamber: the potato strips are conveyed to a kind of ‘cutting chamber’, where the unusable, brown edges are then cut off in two places. This cutting chamber is in the form of a rotating drum that positions the potato strips upright in a slot leading to the chamber, where they then slide past an adjustable blade. The cutting blade can be adjusted between 60 and 100 mm and can thus adapt to the length of the potato strips. The cuttings fall through a sieve deck, after which the cut potato strips return to the production stream.
The Glide illustrates the truth that simple is beautiful. This is a straightforward method that means considerably less waste and impressive increases in yield to as high as 70%.
The Glide requires little or no maintenance thanks to its simple design. The machine is ceramic-blasted, and its all-stainless-steel design is almost entirely corner- and seam-free. The Glide can easily be cleaned with a high-pressure cleaner.
You can also integrate a sorting vibrator in which the rejected cuttings are separated from the usable chips, which are then fed back to the optical sorting process.Â
Main features
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Xcalibur
Why not install Xcalibur within your production process?
Xcalibur does more than just sort. It classifies. On the basis of colour, length, shape and structure, the Xcalibur can scan and arrange objects and remove them using intelligent pneumatic ejection.