Machinery

Conveying, Accumulation & Feeding

Bottles are removed from reshippers by a continuous-motion rotary-style uncaser (left).
Machine Case Study
| July 31, 2001

Bacardi moves to modernization

A revamp of Line One is just part of a plant-wide move to upgrade, automate, and modernize Bacardi’s Jacksonville, FL, plant. See in-plant video
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A Blue Diamond technician makes a keypad adjustment to a new case coder (above). Each coder codes up to three lines of type on a
Machine Case Study
| July 31, 2001

Case coders sparkle at Blue Diamond

New equipment delivers three lines of type for bulk boxes of nuts. The case coders reduce labor costs, downtime, and ink loss associated with previous units.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Robotic palletizer/depalletizer

General Conveyor (Aurora, Ontario, Canada) offers the Series 20 Robo-Matic palletizer/depalletizer. The single-post lift design provides a small footprint while maintaining rates of 2 to 8 cycles/min.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Low profile conveyor

QC Industries (Batavia, OH) offers the Smart Conveyor, which can reach speeds to 2ꯠ’/min. Custom molded cleats can be designed to integrate with a specific part or application.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Tray packer

The TP-25 tray packer for aseptic cartons from Schneider Packaging Equipment (Brewerton, NY) runs 1-L aseptic cartons at up to 25 trays/min. A positive product handling/laning system allows for pre-collation of product and acts as an in-process accumulator.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Container rejection system

The e-jector container rejection system from Enercon (Menomonee Falls, WI) connects into Enercon’s cap inspection systems and mounts to any conveyor.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Pick-and-place system

The PadMate from Vantage Pak (New Britain, CT) is a compact pick-and-place system designed with a servo-controlled pick-and-place arm. The dual-purpose arm will pick and place a corrugated pad from the magazine onto a 2-stage conveyor belt.
Machine Product Brief
| July 31, 2001

Friction feeder

The MFT 350 friction feeder with ADT automatic drop table from Multifeeder (St. Paul, MN) was designed for accurate counting and batching of products to be automatically dropped onto a conveyor.
Books enter the case packing line on an infeed conveyor and are then stacked for case packing in a down-stacking chamber.
Machine Case Study
| July 31, 2001

Textbook publisher moves to automation

By automating case packing and palletizing, this not-for-profit book publisher saves thousands of volunteer hours annually.
Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Uncasing
 Video | July 31, 2001

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Uncasing

Bacardi was among the first to install this rotary uncaser from Hartness International on this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products. It uses 10 carriages continuously moving in a circle to pick bottles from reshippers and place them on a conveyor leading to the rinser/filler/capper block.
Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Depalletizing
 Video | July 31, 2001

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Depalletizing

On this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products, glass bottles arrive in tab-lock reshippers stacked on pallets. The reshippers are elevated layer by layer and then swept off on a discharge conveyor leading to the filling line by the Krones depalletizer.
Axxis Intl.: Depucking & labeling
 Video | June 30, 2001

Axxis Intl.: Depucking & labeling

At this contract packager of personal care products, once bottles are gripped from opposite sides by a transfer conveyor, pucks, supplied by Advantage Puck, ride down an incline conveyor while bottles are transported toward the labeler.
Machine Case Study
| June 30, 2001

Breakthrough aseptic line at CNP (sidebar)

Robotic wizardry
Brick packs of a rice-based beverage, in production on the day of PW's visit, move through the automatic case packer.
Machine Case Study
| June 30, 2001

Breakthrough aseptic line at CNP

Two new aseptic lines are capable of filling either 500-mL or 1-L brick pack cartons. FIFO accumulation system and remote robotic palletizing also shine.
Machine Product Brief
| June 30, 2001

Auger filling machine

The Advantage Line Model DHAA-400 automatic auger filling machine from All-Fill (Exton, PA) consists of dual All-Fill filling heads, an independent motorized chain conveyor mounted on a frame base, and all accessories.

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