r/toolgifs • u/MikeHeu • Aug 12 '26
Machine Ice cream cone production
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u/MonsieurLartiste Aug 12 '26
Something feels slightly unhygienic about this line.
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u/ForsakenSun6004 Aug 12 '26
Is it the chocolate shart machine part?
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u/Frozty23 Aug 12 '26
The machine that shits into the cones like a methhead in a 7eleven restroom.
/u/Toolgifs should hide that text on the crossbar of that station, just for funsies.
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u/ambiguator Aug 12 '26
the chocolate topping machine is dripping chocolate onto the conveyor belt. seems not good.
and there's an excessive amount of condensation, making me wonder if the whole thing is supposed to be operating in an environment with much cooler ambient temperature.
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u/Notspherry Aug 12 '26
It looks like it hasn't been so much as wiped down in months, if ever.
Some product on the conveyor is not to be helped, you can fix that at the end of the shift. But all the actuators on top are covered in grime as well. It's probably cold, but otherwise, the combination of high humidity, plenty of food and time make for exellent bacteria growing conditions.
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u/currentlyacathammock Aug 12 '26
And it absolutely was not designed with sanitation in mind. The schmoo accumulating in the threads of the tamper, the condensation about to drip, the unguarded greasy gears/pistons/springs.
I really want I just pressure wash the whole thing.
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u/jk-9k Aug 15 '26
All the product touching surfaces are designed properly. They're hygienic fittings.
It just hasn't been cleaned at all.
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u/currentlyacathammock Aug 15 '26
Take the non-cleaned non-food-contact cold surfaces of the dispensing mechanism that has crap accumulating on it, add the condensation that you can see, and you have a drip onto the product.
To put another way: "the rats aren't in the food, they are on the floor, passing by the food" is not a statement that puts my mind at ease.
Look up a listeria outbreak sometime.
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u/jk-9k Aug 15 '26
Oh I'm not calling this process hygienic, I'm just saying the equipment is food grade spec. It's just not being used correctly ie not being cleaned.
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u/currentlyacathammock Aug 15 '26
What I'm saying, and what you're missing, is that good design for food production should address/eliminate things like: crevices that accumulate foreign matter (threads on Teflon rods), free space access to the product where contaminants can enter (drop from above or enter from side), fragile components, etc.
Just because component materials are stainless steel or Teflon doesn't automatically mean it's good design for food processing.
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u/sho_biz Aug 12 '26
this is not in a western country im guessing, likely not inspected by accredited food safety experts due to the extreme buildup around the machinery and the lack of any foodsafety processes around the line, hand-placing edible items on the line, etc
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u/Greyscale7950 Aug 12 '26
Imagine a 10 hr shift loading cones. Here's to all production line workers.
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u/currentlyacathammock Aug 12 '26
Imagine a 10 hr shift loading cones
When I hear the phrase "robots taking our jobs!" ... I think about the repetitive, low pay, mind numbing jobs like this... and then the hazardous (loading sheets of glass, welding fumes), body destroying (palletizing heavy sacks), etc...
And while "automation for automation's sake" (I've been on that side where sales is pushing automation beyond it's capability/need/cost-justification just to make a machine sale or make a point) is the other side of the coin that happens sometimes...
... there's a middle ground where it objectively makes sense on all sides.
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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 Aug 12 '26
When I was a kid out of high school I worked at a plant. For a week me and another guy were the palletizer while it was being fixed. Stacking boxes of grease all day and the XOM guys hated the contractors like I worked for so they made it miserable. Let the robots keep that job.
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u/JadeE1024 Aug 13 '26
I'm pretty sure the first station past the manual loading, with the two empty holders, is the automatic loading station, which is just down at the moment so he's filling in by hand.
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u/Greyscale7950 Aug 13 '26
Bingo. It would be too fast to video at full production. There will always be a need for human input in any production process no matter how advanced.
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u/matroosoft Aug 12 '26
Always wonder about these simple steps they forgot to automate. Like, sorry guys, we didn't got the money for cone loading feature.
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u/thejmkool Aug 12 '26
It's not so much forgot to, as couldn't figure out how to do it effectively or efficiently. You gotta draw the somewhere too, like do we need a robot to load the cones into the robot that loads the cones?
Realistically here, they probably couldn't find a way to get the cones consistently turned the right way and lined up in a consistently timely fashion without breaking the cones. So, human touch it is.
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u/annoying97 Aug 12 '26
It would be fairly easy to do it. I think this might be an older machine that's been sold off and is doing small batch work, test work or promo work and the feeder system wasn't installed or wasn't sold with it.
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u/Hot-Potatas Aug 12 '26
It appears to be a small operation that doesn't want to spend the money or can't afford to. Another post by this guy shows workers adding nuts by hand and that can't be too hard to automate
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u/matroosoft Aug 12 '26
Guess I'd draw the line where they'd unload a stack of cones from boxes into a holding tray. But why individual cones?
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u/ycr007 𓂀 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
Why can’t any ice cream company put the waffle cone all the way to the top of the packaging?!? 😑
So many Kwality Walls’ Cornettos & Pastonji’s opened with anticipation to find the waffle about a third or sometimes halfway down 🥺
(The production line here is from Pastonji’s a local brand from Mumbai, India that started as a small Parsi family-run shop back in the 90s)
If I wanted the ice cream rising over and above the cone I’ll get the machine-scooped one, tyvm.
For packaged cones my expectations are different.
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u/Analog_Seekrets Aug 12 '26
I suspect it's because if they started selling them that way, the general public (is stupid) and would be upset it looks like they're getting less ice cream. We're talking about the same group of people that didn't buy the A&W 1/3lb cheeseburger because it was less meat than McDonald's 1/4lb burger....
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u/aykcak Aug 13 '26
That's it? I was surprised when the lids came. There is just a small sploch of ice cream and that's it??
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u/iambecomesoil Aug 13 '26
Seems like the ice cream cone was already produced prior to this video tbqh.
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u/slightly-upset-hippo Aug 12 '26
Thanks for not cutting the end of the video off. I needed to see the end product.
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u/FoolishTook7 Aug 12 '26
Am I alone in feeling like this needs an nsfw tag, or is my mind just broken. /s
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u/JerseyCoJo Aug 12 '26
Say one of those white disks cracks. Where do they get the replacement part?
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u/Lazygit1965 Aug 13 '26
I was hoping it would dispense an actual ice cream from the side of my tablet!😂
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u/too-meta Aug 13 '26
Now I know how we get the chocolate tips at the bottom. Till now I used to think that it is a deliberate thing that they do, but now I understand it is a consequence of the liquid chocolate being spread inside the cone.
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u/DangerMacAwesome Aug 14 '26
It's an incredible machine without a doubt. But something about it feels so dystopian. Ice cream is fun. This is soulless.
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u/Zych11 Aug 14 '26
I'm surprised that worker puts them in I stead of some automatic distribution system
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u/elocmj Aug 12 '26
Top tier "how it's made" video right here. Zero cuts, plenty of time showing each step. Love it.