Controls & Machine Components

Horizontal wrapper

The WS-20 Series II horizontal wrapper from Sasib (DePere, WI) uses multi-axis, computer-controlled servo drives to reach speeds to 350 products/min.

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Heat-seal sensor

Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) offers its Heat-Seal Evaluation/Characterization Technology for testing seal quality. This new non-destructive technology uses ultrasonic waves to characterize and evaluate heat-sealed layers, as well as determine the thickness and elasticity of heat-sealed joints.

February 28, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Oxygen absorber card

The Ageless® oxygen absorber from Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (New York, NY) is now available in a card format that doubles as a backing card when used within a package.

February 28, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Vibratory parts feeder

Chase-Logeman (Greensboro, NC) has developed a patent-pending way to use vacuum to hold feeder bowls and tracks to vibratory base drives, eliminating the use of bolts or other mechanical clamping means.

February 28, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Servo drives

Baldor Electric (Ft. Smith, AR) has developed a new series of brushless servo drives with a keypad, eliminating the need to use a laptop computer.

February 28, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Print/apply labeling

A new print/apply labeling system from Avery Dennison, Soabar Products (Philadelphia, PA) prints and applies labels to fragile display packaging and to unusually shaped items.

February 28, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

A well 'thawed-out' solution

J&J Snacks needed to automate pallet wrapping in its freezer warehouse. But only a specially insulated wrapper could function at temperatures as low as

February 28, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Infeed control system

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group's (St. Louis, MO) Mark II Synchro- screw infeed control system was developed to control the flow of containers at the infeed of fillers, labelers and other machinery.

February 28, 1997

Tamper-evident machinery

Sara Lee puts its brand on take-home foods

Look out Boston Market!

February 28, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Planetary gearheads

The DuraTrue(TM) Series of true planetary gearheads from Thomson Industries (Port Washington, NY) provides peak torque ratings of up to 7굙 in-lb, and backlash ratings as low as eight arc-minutes.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Central processing unit

PLCDirect (Cumming, GA) has added a new central processing unit (CPU) to its DL405 family designed for applications where both high-speed machine control and PID (proportional integral derivative) functionality are needed.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Brushless servomotors

Pacific Scientific's (Rockford, IL) new 2" and 3" frame Sentry brushless servomotors use high torque per frame size with a medium inertia design for improved load inertia matching.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Booklet labels counter shoplifting

Promo Edge (Neenah, WI) now offers its traditional Booklet/Plus(TM) product line with Sensormatic Electronics' (Boca Raton, FL) Ultra-Max® acousto-magnetic technology, designed to thwart shoplifting.

January 31, 1997