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Clougherty Packing: Tray sleeving for ground pork and sausage packaging
 Video | September 30, 2002

Clougherty Packing: Tray sleeving for ground pork and sausage packaging

Feed screws feed lidded trays into the automatic sleever from Adco, which picks blanks from a magazine and places them on lidded trays of pork.
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Clougherty Packing: Extended-text tray labeling for ground pork and sausage packaging
 Video | September 30, 2002

Clougherty Packing: Extended-text tray labeling for ground pork and sausage packaging

Some trays receive extended-text promotional labels from this Quadrel pressure-sensitive labeler.
Quintex: Case erector elevates output for bottle packing
 Video | September 30, 2002

Quintex: Case erector elevates output for bottle packing

After installing a new blow molder, Quintex Plastics, Spokane, WA, sought a higher output, mezzanine-mounted solution to manual case erecting from Pearson Packaging. Key operations are shown for the erector and bottom sealer, which is located in a tight space.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Labeling bottles with clear OPP labels
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Labeling bottles with clear OPP labels

Clear OPP labels are picked from a magazine by bottles after Nordson glue guns spray each bottle sidewall with hot-melt glue. Labeling is done on the Langguth GmbH machine.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Monoblock rinse/fill/cap inside a cleanroom
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Monoblock rinse/fill/cap inside a cleanroom

Inside an overpressured clean room, PET bottles run through a Fogg monobloc rinser/filler/capper.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Depalletizing bulk bottles
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Depalletizing bulk bottles

Bulk bottles for water are automatically depalletized by a Priority One Packaging Machinery (www.prioritypackaging.com) Pro-Pal bulk bottle depalletizer at the front end of the PET line.
North Side: Case sealing frozen beef patties
 Video | June 30, 2002

North Side: Case sealing frozen beef patties

Case taping is done by a Belcor machine with a rated speed of 20 cases/min. North Side runs in the range of 12 cases/min.
North Side: Case erecting and labeling frozen beef patties
 Video | June 30, 2002

North Side: Case erecting and labeling frozen beef patties

Case erecting of single-wall cases is done on a case erector from Wexxar.
North Side: Weighing and filling of frozen beef patties
 Video | June 30, 2002

North Side: Weighing and filling of frozen beef patties

Bag filling begins at the Ohlson four-head bulk-and-dribble scale, which has frozen patties conveyed to it directly from a spiral freezer.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottled water drop packing
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottled water drop packing

This machine drops HDPE bottles into cases near the end of the line.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottle filling of 2.5-gal bottles
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottle filling of 2.5-gal bottles

The 2.5-gal bottles are filled by this in-line machine, but the other two HDPE bottles run through a rotary filler.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: 2.5-gal HDPE bottle labeling
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: 2.5-gal HDPE bottle labeling

Pressure-sensitive labeler applies labels to the top of the 2.5-gal HDPE bottle but slides down and labels a side panel on the two smaller bottle sizes.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottle debagging
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: HDPE bottle debagging

The 2.5-, 1-, and half-gal bottles are automatically debagged by this machine just ahead of labeling and filling.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Stretch wrapping bottled water
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Stretch wrapping bottled water

Stretch wrapping brings the PET line to a close.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Palletizing bottled water
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Palletizing bottled water

A low-level palletizer loads tray packs onto a sweep platform that delivers full layers onto the pallet.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Laser coding PET bottles
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Laser coding PET bottles

A Industrial Dynamics Lasetec laser coder codes onto the shoulder of each PET bottle is a date code.
San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Tray-packing and shrink wrapping 1-5-L bottles
 Video | June 30, 2002

San Manuel Bottled Water Group: Tray-packing and shrink wrapping 1-5-L bottles

The 1.5-L bottles of water are shown being collated into 12-count groups and loaded into corrugated trays that then run through a shrink tunnel.
Frozen Specialties Inc.: Cartoned pizza inspection
 Video | May 31, 2002

Frozen Specialties Inc.: Cartoned pizza inspection

The second, downstream system from Cognex checks the cartoned pizza's two end flaps for seal integrity, as seen in this overhead view. This setup features below-conveyor backlighting. Monitor shows each pizza carton image as it is analyzed by measuring it across three segments to within 1/8"" accuracy.

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