Elegance® Shell Moulding Line
Shell, fill, and seal — the complete filled-chocolate process on one line.
Specifications
| Model | Capacity | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Shell — shell mode | 12–15 moulds/min | 31 servo motors |
| Shell — one-shot | 15–18 moulds/min | Also runs solid/one-shot |
Filled chocolates are the most demanding products in moulding. A praline is really three products made in sequence: a shell of exact wall thickness, a filling deposited into it without breaching it, and a base that seals the two into one flawless piece. Each step has its own temperatures, its own cooling, its own failure modes.
The Alpy Chocolate Shell Moulding Line runs that entire sequence as one integrated process. Follow the stations and you are reading the recipe for a filled chocolate, in order:
- Mould heating tunnel
- One-shot depositor with vibration
- Shell making group
- Horizontal shell cooling tunnel
- Elevator-type shell cooling tunnel
- One-shot depositor for filling, with vibration
- Elevator-type filling cooling tunnel
- Mould heating tunnel (pre-covering)
- Chocolate depositor (covering) with vibration
- Scraper drum
- Vibration group
- Main cooling tunnel
- Automatic mould unloading group
- Exit conveyor for demoulded products
The most precisely controlled line Alpy builds
Coordinating fourteen stations takes control hardware, and the Shell line carries it: 31 servo motors in the standard configuration — the most in the Alpy range — with depositing governed by the proprietary ALPY Cam Profile Depositing Program. That is what holds shell walls uniform and deposit weights repeatable at production speed, which is what decides both your product quality and your chocolate consumption per piece.
- Capacity: 12–15 moulds per minute for shell products; 15–18 moulds per minute for one-shot products
- Mould dimensions: 470 x 200 x 30 mm, 600 x 245 x 30 mm, or 800 x 245 x 30 mm
- Layout: straight or rectangular, configured to your floor space
- Flexibility: the line also runs one-shot products, so it can cover your solid range alongside filled lines
Where this line fits
If your products are solid or one-shot filled, the MODUFLEX or PIN-DRIVE lines do the job at lower investment. The Shell line is for manufacturers whose business is true filled chocolates — pralines, bonbons, liquid-centre products — where shell quality is the product. Many customers run shell and one-shot production on this single line.
Send us your praline range and target output; we will return a station configuration and layout drawing.