Automatic sleeving for rolled and molded cones
Optimize your cone production line with precision sleeving and reliable detection, ensuring each cone receives a sleeve without waste, all while monitoring sleeve stock to prevent downtime.

Sleeves and Stacks Ice Cream Cones Precisely
The Franz Haas KFM-H from Bühler Group is an automatic sleeving machine engineered to enhance the packaging process of rolled and molded ice cream cones. This specialized equipment sets itself apart with its precision sleeving capabilities, utilizing vacuum suction cups to accurately place single sleeves onto a stacking band, ensuring each cone is properly sleeved without wastage. Ideal for high-speed production lines in confectionery and food processing industries, it seamlessly integrates with existing systems, maintaining optimal efficiency and reducing downtime. The KFM-H excels in automatic operations with precise cone detection, allowing for smart inventory management by alerting operators when sleeve stock is low. The machine is specifically tailored for producing end-products like ice cream cones, wafer sheets, and chocolate-coated cones, making it an essential asset in facilities focused on high volume and quality packaging.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by automating the sleeving process, reducing manual intervention.
- Minimizes product waste with precise cone detection, ensuring every cone is correctly sleeved.
- Reduces material costs by managing sleeve inventory, preventing unnecessary stockpiling.
- Integrates seamlessly into existing production lines, allowing for high-speed processing.
- Increases operational reliability with precision-engineered components for consistent performance.
- Applications
- Wafers,Snacks,Molded cones,Confectionery,Rolled cones
- End products
- Waffle cones,Ice cream cones,Chocolate-coated cones,Sugar cones,Wafer sheets
- Steps before
- Moulding,Rolling
- Steps after
- Packing,Palletizing
- Input ingredients
- rolled cones,molded cones,horizontal stack of sleeves
- Output ingredients
- sleeved rolled cones,sleeved molded cones
- Market info
- Buhler is renowned for manufacturing advanced process solutions for food, feed, and advanced materials. They are highly regarded for their innovation in milling technology and equipment quality.
- Automation
- Automatic
- Single Sleeve Detection
- Precision suction cup
- Cone Type Detection
- Rolled or Molded cones
- Sleeve Placement
- Horizontal stacking band
- Monitoring
- Stock level notification
- Sleeve Retrieval
- Suction cup method
- Working Mechanism
- Automatic sleeving with suction cups
- Automation Level
- Automatic
- Precision Sleeving
- Suction cup pulling system
- Cone Detection
- Automatic detection
- Integrated Steps
- Sleeve pulling and cone insertion
- Changeover Time
- Not specified
- Batch vs. Continuous Operation
- Not specified
- Cleaning Method
- Not specified
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Cone type compatibility
- Rolled / Molded
- Sleeve stack orientation
- Horizontal
- Sleeving method
- Automatic
- Discharge method
- Cone into sleeve
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- PLC / SCADA
- Compact footprint
- Yes