How to avoid jams in a high-speed ice cream filling machine with wooden sticks?
How to avoid jams in a high-speed ice cream filling machine with wooden sticks?
Stick jams on high-speed lines are rarely a machine fault — they are caused by warped or inconsistent sticks. The fix is upstream: feed the line sticks that are straight and uniform on every cycle.
YADA Industrial's 114 mm and 93 mm birch & bamboo ice cream sticks are built for the fastest commercial freezing lines, including moulding lines running 48,000+ sticks per hour. We control straightness at the source:
| Control step | What it does |
|---|---|
| Two-stage polishing | Removes burrs and surface irregularities that trigger misfeeds. |
| A 14-camera optical sorter | Inspects 100% of sticks and rejects any outside tolerance, holding warp (end deflection) within 2.8 mm (lot-controlled, recorded on the COA). |
By removing curl and warp before sticks reach the inserter, we eliminate wooden-stick warpage as a cause of jamming and broken-line stoppages — protecting your line uptime and full-speed output.