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Rheon Encrusting Machines

Symetec is the sanctioned dealer for the Oceanic Area.

Although originally grown from the baking industry, Rheon encrusters have quickly found much wider applications in their ability to handle a very wide range of materials.
Rheon products are now found in meat & poultry, snack & health, seafood's, confectionery, pet food and even ice cream as well as bakery products including biscuits/cookies as well as bread dough's.

The basic concept of the Rheon machines are to combine any two materials - one as an outside casing and the second as a filling.
The machine extrudes the two materials as a continuous extrusion and a shutter device, not unlike a camera iris, cuts and seals the extrusion to the desired weights and/or lengths.
Primary shapes from the machine are obtained as balls from 10 to 300gms, OR logs (closed and sealed rounded ends) of any weight depending how long the log is, OR use the machine to make a continuous extrusion and cut into lengths downstream to the required weights/lengths (these will give you open ends where you can see the filling contents such as a sausage roll or fruit bar).

Variations on these basic machine functions are -
       The ability to deliberately leave the top of a ball product open by using a special shutter . This allows the filling to be seen. This was developed primarily for producing individual portion pizza's but will find other applications as well.
       The ability to use different shaped ring & nozzle sets so as to have other than round continuous extrusions or logs. They can be square, triangular or almost any shape including open topped where the filling is a layer on the second material (casing) rather than be enclosed by it.
       The ability to make the filling into pictures or mosaics. This is primarily used for biscuits where teddy bears or smiley faces can be produced with two different coloured (and flavoured) biscuit dough's.
       The ability to add a second filling into the centre. The second filling (or third material) must be of a paste or thick liquid type nature. An example may be to produce the round potato ball with a meat filling, and a dash of tomato sauce in the centre of the meat.
       The ability to place a solid object inside the case material, with or without a filling around it. This could be a sweet pastry, with chocolate filling and a strawberry in the centre. It may be an Olive in the centre of a ball of meat

There are several models of encrusters but all work on the same principles.
The model KN400 has been the most popular machine we sell as it is the most versatile.
However, the new KN550 introduces faster production speeds, slightly simpler assembly and operation with 9 fewer components to clean, and a touch screen operator control panel.

Major improvements of model KN550 over KN400 –

KN400

KN550

Forming speed max = 60/min

Forming speed max = 90/min.

*at speeds over 61/min, shutter opening is limited to 70mm diameter. Material should be soft and smooth such as cookie dough.

Extrusion rate = 360kg/hr max

Extrusion rate = 400kg/hr max

Flow controller driven by end of screw auger.

Flow controller turned horizontal with independent speed control. Controller wing is wider.

Inner material fed through overhead pipe assembly to compound head area.

Filling controller delivers direct to the compound head – less material remaining at end of the run / less cleaning.

Agitator speed = 6 speeds.

Agitator speed = 12 speed selection

Compound Head assembly – centred by Teflon bushes. Extruded material often off centre to the conveyor belt.

New agitator support does away with wearing bushes and material is better extruded straight to land centre of the conveyor belt.

Fixed shutter movement.

Closing position and stroke of shutter is adjustable from the operators panel for better control over the shaping of the product.

Encruster stroke = 26mm

Encruster stroke 50mm.

Flour dusting by rotating brush.

Flour dusting through mesh plate – reducing flour consumption and more even across the belt.

Program memory for speed and time settings only

Program memory includes parts for each memory (product) location – ie: rings, nozzles, shutters etc, as well as speed and time settings.

79 disassembled items for cleaning

70 disassembled items for cleaning

Several safety guards to open.

One safety guard to open.

The KN135 is a smaller version of the now replaced KN400 and although unable to handle elastic doughs, is fully suitable for most other savory and bakery products.

The KN550, KN400 and KN135 are of stainless steel construction and fully hoseable. They each have a single head which can make up to a 300gram product as a single deposit (KN135 – up to 150gms). Both can handle a very wide range of materials.

The KN170 is a lightweight version of the encrusting machines and is ideal for fast production of soft products such as confectionary, potato and cookie dough’s. It has an aluminum construction and is not fully hoseable – it is therefore not generally suitable for meat and savoury products, although many companies still use them for potato and meat croquettes and filled Gnocchi.

Rheon offer test kitchen facilities in Japan for a potential or existing customer to use to try products and refine them to their specifications.
Most of our customers use these facilities as Rheon do not charge for this service or for the materials used. This means that a customer can fully test his product for only the cost of an air fare and a couple of nights accommodation.

This is a significant advantage for the customer as -
       They can see their product running and know it will work the way they visualised it. They can bring back samples, or if it is a quarantined product, they can take photo's or video's to bring back.
       We obtain a full list of the components used, which means there is no guesswork involved and also we can supply an accurate quotation. If any special parts are required, we become aware of it.
       The customer can go immediately into production on receiving the machine instead of facing long development on an unfamiliar machine.

A typical visit will only take 1.5 days of testing. This means a customer can leave for Japan on a weekend, test on Monday and Tuesday morning, fly back over Tuesday night and be back in Australia/NZ on Wednesday morning with a fully developed product that he knows will run.

As the authorised Rheon dealer, we can arrange a test session at Rheon on your request.

Follow on equipment from a Rheon encrusting machine could be

Click here to go to several User reports on Encrusting machines (slow loading)

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