Controls & Machine Components

Case bundle loader

Designed with safety and ergonomics in mind, the FF-1 KD (knocked down) automatic case bundle loader from Salwasser (Reedley, CA) loads stacks of case blanks onto most existing casing systems.

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Controls & Machine Components

Guide rail clamps

AMBEC's (Owing Mills, MD) Quick Clamps facilitate changing guide rail spacing without hand tools. Operators simply pull up the handle, set the clamp to a new position and press down to lock it in place.

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Controls & Machine Components

Adjusting framework

For flexographic printing applications that require raising and lowering of the printer, Kiwi Coders (Wheeling, IL) has developed the Model VA Vertical Adjustment Framework.

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Controls & Machine Components

Static generation system

Designed for the temporary bonding between materials through the use of static electricity, Meech Static Eliminators (Akron, OH) has developed the Model 992 DC static generators and Model 993 charge bars.

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Controls & Machine Components

Reusable containers

Designed for dry flowable products or slurries, three new sizes have been added to the CIC(TM) (collapsible intermodal container) line of reusable containers from SEEC (Mendota Heights, MN).

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Controls & Machine Components

Tape dispenser

Better Packages (Shelton, CT) has introduced two new gummed tape dispensers. With a single stroke, the BP 333 manual tape dispenser can dispense tape measuring from 1.5" to 3" W in lengths up to 30".

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Controls & Machine Components

Linear actuators

A new line of electromechanical actuators is available from PHD (Ft. Wayne, IN). The Series ES servo-powered linear actuator (Emax(TM)) provides quick, smooth and accurate multi-position linear motion, as well as simplified program- ming.

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Secondary Packaging

Expanding the scope of the operator

With computer and technological advances, the role of the packaging machinery operator continues to evolve as the year 2000 nears. Flexibility is key.

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Conveying & accumulation

Components assume new importance in packaging

Conveyors, coding and marking machines, and motors and drives are the components best-known to packagers who have production and engineering responsibilities.

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Conveying & accumulation

Big changes in tools for mechanics of the future

The most popular handtool for future packaging mechanics may well be a laptop computer, our experts say. Electronic controls have already arrived in many machines, and are expected to dominate by the turn of the century.

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Cartoning

Robotics deliver Rx for manual cartoning

Automated set up, packing and labeling of cartons containing antibiotic I.V. bags saves Baxter Healthcare nearly $2 million/year in labor and material costs.

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Secondary Packaging

Case packer

The new automatic and servo-motor driven case packer from Brenton Eng. (Alexandria, MN) reaches speeds to 35 cases/min. It features a patented continuous-motion downstacker.

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Controls & Machine Components

Indexing conveyor

WeighPack Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) now offers bottle/can indexing conveyors for integration on WeighPack's automatic weigh/fill systems.

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