CARTON COUNTER AND OPERATION METHOD OF CARTON COUNTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carton counter capable of performing marking operation without creating any press trace due to marking operation in a process of sorting paper cartons into certain numbers in a sack sticking process of a paper carton manufacturing line, which can be installed in a small space without changing existing production process, ensuring conventional workability of an operator. ! SOLUTION: The carton counter includes: a conveyance amount measurement unit 100 that obtains precise positional information on a paper carton manufacturing line; a carton step measurement unit 102 that continuously detects the height of cartons being conveyed; a marking unit 106 that performs marking on one carton of cartons under conveyance being overlapped with each other; and a control unit 200 that controls marking operation by selecting a carton to be marked from the cartons under conveyance being overlapped with each other based on a piece of information received from the conveyance amount measure