Controls & Machine Components

Static-phase coupling

Candy Controls (Niles, IL) has introduced the Candy Phasing Hub, a static-phase adjusting coupling for angular displacements. When in motion, it operates as a rigid 1:1 shaft coupling.

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Secondary Packaging

Small cartoner

DT Kalish (Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada) says its new Kalish/Kalix Kpm bench-top mounted cartoner is the smallest in the world. It measures 19.7" W x 19.7" L x 22.5" H (500 mm W x 500 mm L x 570 mm H), making it suitable for the cartoning of small containers.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Hot stamping foil

Designed to be versatile and environmentally safe, Foilmark (Newburyport, MA) introduced its Optimum Gold (OG) Series of hot stamping foils. The foils can be hot stamped at temperatures ranging from 210°F to 300°F and can be applied to all water- and solvent-based inks, coated and uncoated paper, vinyls, lacquers, and lithograpy varnishes.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Seal integrity testing

A portable vacuum chamber from Hooper Eng. (Sarasota, FL) is designed for testing seal integrity in high-pressure environments. Can be used with most types of packages, including medical device and food packaging.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Linerless label printer

Barcode Blaster CL is a new linerless label printer from Cognitive Solutions (Paso Robles, CA). Cutter-equipped, it uses direct thermal media up to 4.25" W and 12" L.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Encyclopedia updates packaging technology

"Ten years agoo/ooservo drives were for airplanes, sous vide was French for vacuum and Crown Cork and Seal was an also-ran in the world of can makers.

May 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Wrapping up changeover

Design House's new shrink wrapping line handles packages in various lengths without the need for changeover.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Product settler

Powell Systems (Youngstown, OH) has introduced a product settler/forward transfer table that uses vibration to settle boxed products below the score line of the box before flaps are folded and sealed.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Static eliminator

The E-Nife static bar with ionizing air knife is new from Tantec (Schaumburg, IL). It's used to clean surfaces such as plastic, glass, fabric and paper on webs moving up to 200'/min or parts from a distance of up to 12".

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Metallized paper

Unilustre(TM) is a new metallized paper from Unifoil (Passaic Park, NJ) developed with simplified printing in mind. It looks like foil but prints like paper, says the company.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

TE neck/body bander

The Kalish Bandstar from DT Kalish (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a versatile TE neck/body bander. It uses a positive band feed and placement system that feeds an uncut band directly on to each container, then cuts the band to its precise length in a single, continuous motion.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Plastic dispenser pump

Taplast (Povolaro, Italy) has developed an all plastic dispenser pump made of HDPE and PP. It uses plastic bellows instead of metal springs to provide 20% less operating pressure than conventional pumps, says the company.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Bar-code scanner

The LS2100 is a bar-code scanner from Datalogic (Scotts Valley, CA) suitable for applications that require inexpensive fixed-position bar-code scanning of medium- and low-density codes in harsh environments.

April 30, 1997