Fedco Depositors

We offer a variety of batter and filling depositor configurations for most every baking application.

Piston Depositors

Piston depositing is a proven technology for the accurate, intermittent placement of batters and fillings.  Using a pneumatically actuated piston/cylinder assembly for each lane of deposit, very high-speed and repeatable depositing is possible at a rate of up to 90 cycles per minute (depending on viscosity, specific gravity and size of deposit).  Each of our piston depositors has a proprietary rotary valve for positive, drip-less and sanitary portioning.  Fedco offers three models of piston depositors allowing us to cover the entire spectrum of baking.

Fedco APD Depositor – Our most flexible depositor, the APD is designed to offer the user the utmost in lane-balancing precision with the addition of motorized adjustment of deposit weight on each piston/cylinder.  Adjustment can be done “on the fly” to assure the most consistent product scaling with the least interruption to the baking process.

• Individual, motorized piston stroke control with recipe storage in the PLC.
• Oven, conveyor or floor mounting (rigid or caster) with depositor height adjustment.
• Optional custom-designed conveying systems with pan sensing and automatic operation.
• Handles particulates easily.
• Removable die plates for enhanced depositing size and center flexibility.Fedco Depositor 

Fedco WPD Depositor – Essentially the manual version of our popular APD depositor, the WPD offers an economical solution where full automation and recipe storage isn’t important to the operation.  With the same mechanics and pneumatic controls as the APD, the WPD has manual adjustment of individual piston stroke that must be done when the machine is idle.

• PLC controls
• Oven, conveyor or floor mounting (rigid or caster) with hydraulic, manual depositor height adjustment.
• Optional custom-designed conveying systems with pan sensing and automatic operation.
• Handles particulates easily.
• Removable die plates for enhanced depositing size and center flexibility.

Fedco RPD Depositor – Targeted at the lower-volume baker, the RPD is our most economical solution for product depositing.  It can run in either automatic mode or manually to intermittently deposit product.  Individual piston stroke can be mechanically varied off-line and the unit can be mounted in a variety of ways from tabletop to a freestanding cantilevered unit.

Manifold Depositors

Pressurized by a continuous mixer/aerator or pump system, manifold depositors are used for primarily for continuous application of viscous materials such as cake batter on an oven band, or for application of icings or fillings.  This style of depositor can also be run in an intermittent mode providing enhanced flexibility to the baker.  This style of depositor allows for very wide deposits, but can also be set up to provide any number of strips of product along the width of the manifold. 

• Pneumatically-controlled rotary shut-off valve is made of food-grade materials for clean, drip-less deposits.
• Handles batters, icings, marshmallow and jellies.
• Product distribution is balanced along the manifold width with stainless steel balancing screws.

Brownie / Icing Depositors

The Fedco Brownie Depositor / Extruder is a unique design targeted to depositing needs of very viscous materials where an “edge to edge” deposit is required.  The depositing head is gravity-fed by a live hopper and material is drawn down through the head by a set of pressure rollers. 

• PLC controlled
• Intermittent or continuous operation
• Fast and easy adjustment of product thickness
• Very high speed operation applying up to 100 feet per minute (depending on viscosity, specific gravity)

Brownie Depositor

 

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  • Up to 90 cycles per minute depending on specific gravity, viscosity and size of deposit allowing for varying products, while ensuring the highest productivity.
  • Custom engineered to accommodate your pan sizes and configurations.
  • Stainless steel support frame for durability as well as ease of sanitation.
  • Hard anodized aluminum valve chamber, depositing head, piston housing and piston cylinders for durability as well as ease of sanitation.
  • Rotary valve and pistons machined from food grade materials ensuring to meet BISSC standards.
  • Dripless rotary cutoff valve results in accurate, sanitary scaling.
  • Standard scaling accuracy is achieved by motorized adjustment controlled at the operator interface panel.
  • Fine calibration on each individual piston is achieved by motorized adjustment controlled at the operator interface panel.
  • Depositing head height can be adjusted using a hydraulic jack to accommodate various pan sizes.
  • Pan sensor to automatically start depositing cycle to increase efficiency and productivity.
  • Video operator interface panel for creating and storing recipes.
  • PLC timing controls.
  • Conveyorized models include pan guides for automatically centering pan under depositing head and sanitary conveyor belt driven by a variable speed AC motor.
  • NEMA 4 (water tight) stainless steel starter enclosure and operator panel allows for easy clean up.