Machinery: Page 1136

Controls & Machine Components

Machinery brochure

Salwasser's (Reedley, CA) new brochure contains a brief history and profile of the company, photographs of various Salwasser machines and the manufacturing facilities.

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Controls & Machine Components

P-s labeler

Model STP 1 is a new stepper-driven pressure-sensitive labeler from ELF Machines (LaPorte, IN). Micro processor-controlled, it delivers speeds to 200 containers/ min with ±1/32" accuracy.

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Controls & Machine Components

PVC bottles

Plastic Bottle (Libertyville, IL) has added a 2-oz and 8-oz bottle to its Ashley Ovals line of cosmetics and personal care containers. The 2-oz Ashley Oval is produced with a 20/415 neck finish and the 8-oz version with a 24/415 neck finish.

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Controls & Machine Components

Technical training

Pneumatic Scale (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) is offering technical training on Series 2000 Closetech Can Seamers at either its site or in the packaging plant.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hologram induction seals

Integrasafe is a hologrammed induction heat-sealable membrane for PE containers from Sonoco Capseals (Slough, Berks, England). Because exact reproduction of the holograms would be difficult, these membranes offer a high degree of tamper-evidence without changing existing packaging designs.

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Conveying & accumulation

Oil-shear brakes

Posistop® oil-shear brakes from Force Control (Fairfield, OH) are designed to eliminate the high maintenance associated with ordinary dry-friction brakes in stop-and-hold applications.

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Flexible packaging

Bag and pouch making

GN Packaging Equipment (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada): Medical pouch machines, GN26MP and GN36MP, produce pouches from webs to 26" and 36" widths, respectively.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Machine vision system

Sharp Digital Information Products (Irvine, CA) has developed a new machine vision system that does color inspection and tracking at speeds to 2꼀 parts/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labeling machines

Literature on two new automatic sleeve labeling machines is now available from SleeveTech (Raleigh, NC). The Model SL-1800 can label plastic bottles from 8 oz to 21/2 gal at speeds to 30 bottles/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vibration trending

Hardy Instruments (San Diego, CA) has introduced a new, two-wire, loop-powered vibration transmitter for measuring vibration on plant machinery including pumps, fans, blowers, motors and mixers.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor system

A new chain-in-channel conveyor system from John Burton Machine (Rodeo, CA) is available with aluminum drive-end and idle-end component assemblies. Single conveyor chains slide on lubricated nylon edges on inclines and curves, quietly moving products at speeds to 275'/min, without the noise of roller-to-roller transfers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum cups

A new line of vacuum cups molded from natural gum rubber is now available from Anver (Hudson, MA). Available in standard or custom compounds, cups resist paper dust and ink and are offered in standard push-, stretch-, clip- and screw-on mounting styles.

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