Controls & Machine Components

Pressure filler

Cozzoli's (Plainfield, NJ) new Time/ Pressure filler (TPF) uses a touch-screen interface for quick operator set-up. Its software program uses product characteristics, manifold pressure and selected fill nozzles to determine proper fill time.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Energy efficient motors

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) has introduced energy-efficient motors that comply with the Energy Policy Act (EPAct). Standard-E(TM) motors are said to run cooler and last longer.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Coding diverter

Travtec's patented Base Coding Diverter II from Certified Machinery (Lawrenceville, NJ) is specifically designed for use with ink-jet printers, labelers and verification equipment, where access to the base of a container is required while the container is being carried along a conveyor.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Granular scale

WeighPack Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has introduced the Multi-TRIX scale for powders and granulars. It reads in 1-g increments with combination capabilities to self-adjust its final dump in multi-dump situations.

September 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor flow system

The Power Converge unit from Runway Enterprises (Frankfort, IL) gently oscillates containers as they move down a conveyor lane to reduce jamming and bridging.

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Controls & machine components

Plastic clip system

The Plasti-Clip Line from Poly-Clip (Mundelein, IL) is a new system that uses USDA-approved plastic clips to close bagged or netted products. This makes easy metal detection possible and allows microwavability.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Chamber vacuum sealer

The Tach-It Packaging (S. Hackensack, NJ) Model VST 35 is a stainless steel chamber vacuum sealer with wash-down capabilities. This tabletop unit can vacuum, seal and trim the bag in a single step.

September 30, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Rotary labeler

The Rotary p-s labeling system from CCL (Monrovia, CA) can be equipped with up to four stepper-drive labeling heads to dispense labels at speeds to 3꽤"/ min.

September 30, 1997

Filling/capping, dry

Desiccare, Inc: Oxygen scavenger

The O-Buster non-toxic, hygienic, odorless oxygen scavenger from Desiccare (Richland, MS) is designed to prevent mold and odor formation and oxidation.

September 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Magnetic cable conveyor

Walker Magnetics (Worcester, MA) will demonstrate a magnetic cable conveyor at the show. It conveys empty or full steel cans at speeds to 1ꯠ/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case printer

The Print-A-Code (PAC) Model 1 short-run case printer from James Dawson (Nepean, Ontario, Canada) provides a quick and inexpensive means of printing graphics onto corrugated cases.

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Controls & Machine Components

Load cell

The Tedea-Huntleigh (Canoga Park, CA) Model 1410 single-point load cell is designed specifically to withstand centrifugal forces, mechanical noises and vibrations inherent in dynamic rotary operations, such as those in rotary filling machines.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Machine vision system

Systech (Cranbury, NJ) has introduced TIPS® Sentri, an entry-level machine vision system that performs imaging and analysis of packaging. Supports applications for measurement, positioning, assembly, character and code verification, product and print quality, and identification.

September 30, 1997