Controls & Machine Components

Banner Engineering Corp.: Safety catalog

Engineers and specifiers dealing with manufacturing safety issues may wish to peruse the 1997-98 catalog of Machine Safety Products from Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN).

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor brochure

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) has released a color brochure describing its Baldor SmartMotor® family, which includes industrial AC motors with adjustable speed control electronics.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Tray packer shrinks changeover time

Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.

July 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Elsner Eng. Works: Rewinding/overwrapping line

Elsner Eng. Works (Hanover, PA) has redesigned its HS-800/OWH-800 rewinding and overwrapping production line. Designed for gift wrap, tissue, kraft paper and selected films, the rewinder can be used for core, coreless or sheet-stiffened rewinding.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Integrated tag and label

An integrated tag and label that allows apparel makers to meet vendor requirements for hang tags and separate p-s labels marked with identical variable data is available from Avery Dennison Tag & Label Products (Philadelphia, PA).

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Colder Products Co.: Dispensing coupler

A universal dispensing coupler that enables powered dispensing systems to connect to most standard volume packs has been developed by Colder Products (St.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Bottle inspector

AGR Intl.'s (Butler, PA) Blowmolder Vision Inspection System is a device that inspects plastic containers while they are inside a two-stage blow-molding system.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: Motor control cabinet

DeviceNet MCC is the first DeviceNet-compatible industrial-grade motor control center, says manufacturer Cutler-Hammer (Milwaukee, WI). It allows operators control from a single PC or PLC in conjunction with a man-machine interface.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Eastman Chemical Company: Eastman Chemical Company: Cosmetics jars

Colt's (Daysville, Conn.) has expanded its packaging line with new cosmetics jars suitable for makeup, loose powders, creams, face treatments and bath and body products.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Cookson Plastic Molding Corp.: Plastic pallet

Cookson Plastic Molding (Philadelphia, PA) introduces The Boss(TM), a 40" x 48" rackable HDPE pallet. Structural foam molded and weighing about 57 lb, the pallet has an edge rack load capacity of 2꼀 lb and a dynamic load capacity of 5ꯠ lb.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Windmoeller & Hoelscher: Multiwall liner inserter

A new PE liner bag inserting system from Windmoeller & Hoelscher (Lincoln, RI) is intended for use where paper sacks require plastic liners with good seal-strength characteristics.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Belt conveyor

Alvey Systems' (St. Louis, MO) rollerless conveyor for beverage applications uses a unique plastic belt capable of transporting trays of PET bottles up or down steep in-clines and declines without product slippage.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

All-Fill Inc: All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

All-Fill's (Exton, PA) Servomotor Direct Drive Multi-Fill filling system provides fast, accurate multi-positioned dispensing of powders and viscous products.

July 31, 1998