Controls & Machine Components

Orienter/verifier

Owens Design's (Fremont, CA) bottle orientation/label verification system provides high-speed label inspection on pharmaceutical bottles. It orients bottles and presents label data to a vision system for verification while checking for cap skew and TE seals at speeds of more than 400 bottles/min.

August 31, 1996

Controls & machine components: Page 425

Controls & Machine Components

Unit-dose delivery system

Merck (Whitehouse Station, NJ) has developed a two-compartment container and delivery system for two-component medications that must be mixed just before administering.

August 31, 1996

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Harsh-duty labeling head

Quadrel Labeling Systems (Mentor, OH) offers the Q60 labeling head with NEMA 4X electronics for use in harsh or wet environments such as dairies or beverage bottling plants.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Limit switch brochure

Candy Controls (Niles, IL) introduces its 6-page, 4-color brochure on the PLS800 Programmable Limit Switch. The brochure contains photos and a complete description and explanation of the easy-to-program switch.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

In-mold labeling

Cardinal Packaging (Streetsboro, OH) has introduced a new technology for applying a plastic label to an injection-molded container at the molding stage.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Carton sealers

Intertape (St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada) has introduced a new semi-automatic uniform case sealer. Model USA 3660-7 can seal cases ranging from 12" x 24" x 12" to 36" x 60" x an unlimited length.

August 31, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Vacuum pumps

PIAB (Hingham, MA) released a new brochure highlighting the company's line of vacuum pumps. PIAB vacuum systems are designed to perform most packaging procedures, including erecting, loading, opening, inserting, labeling, palletizing, forming and vacuum conveying.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Tablet dispenser

Continental Plastics Europe (Ratingen, Germany) has introduced a two-piece tablet dispenser made of PP with an inner spring that can be fitted into glass medicine bottles.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Thermal transfer ribbon

Dynell Inc. (Danielson, CT) discusses its wide range of labels, bar code ribbons, tabletop design-and-print systems, and print-and-apply systems for labeling applications in its new full-color brochure.

August 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

H-divider/tray packer

A packaging alternative for retail displays can be found in Brenton Eng.'s (Alexandria, MN) new Integrated H-divider/tray packaging system. It accommodates round or oval PET or glass bottles at speeds to 25 trays/min.

August 31, 1996

Controls & machine components

Fill-height monitor

The Checkmat from Krones (Franklin, WI) is now available in an X-ray version for maximum precision in fill height monitoring. The X-ray source is completely inoperative after being switched off, so no elaborate safety precautions are necessary, says Krones.

August 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

R.A. Pearson Co. (Spokane, WA) has developed a new compact case erector that runs tablock or standard cases at speeds to 25 containers/min. Model R225 has a variable frequency drive with a programmable keypad.

August 31, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Ocean Spray's vision improves inspection

Juice maker automates vision system for detecting fill heights and cap application on PET bottles containing hot-filled juices. Productivity rises, labor costs decline, resulting in payback in less than one year.

August 31, 1996