Machinery: Page 1231

Controls & Machine Components

Measuring caps

Klear Measure(TM) caps for spice jars from E.S. Robbins (Muscle Shoals, AL) have a built-in measuring chamber. Jars are tilted to fill the chamber to a desired level.

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Controls & Machine Components

Truck loading program

Advanced Truck Loader(TM) 4.0 is a software program from Advanced Logistics Systems (Roche Harbor, WA) that facilitates loading of trucks to maximum legal axle weights.

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Flexible packaging

Mini pouch machine

The Stick Pack from Hassia (Somerville, NJ) is a mini pouch vertical form/fill/seal machine for liquids, gels, or powders that produces up to 400 packages/min, depending on the number of lanes per index.

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Flexible packaging

Drawroll bag maker

FMC's Packaging and Material Handling Div. (Green Bay, WI) introduced the SR-1400 Servo Draw® bag machine. The 56"-W split-roll bag machine permits a choice of side-weld or bottom-seal/twin-seal production.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hand-held scanner

The Verispec RF from Parish Automation (Lakewood, NJ) is a hand-held, cordless scanner for bar code scanning, decoding and verification. Allows operators to scan and transmit up to 50' from the base station.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case/tray-lid shipper display

Salwasser's (Reedley, CA) case packer loads 12 and 24 overwrapped, multi-packed candy bars into both wraparound cases and display trays, using an HSC as a lid.

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Controls & Machine Components

Servo drives

BRU-Series Advantage Line is a new generation of servo drives from Reliance Motion Control (Eden Prairie, MN). The manufacturer calls the line a universal drive because it inte-grates brushless drive and vector drive technologies into a single drive, and because it is essentially five drives in one with its ability to accept a variety of command sources.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rewinding/finishing station

CenTek Intl.'s (Bowling Green, OH), ReFlex(TM) CT100 re-winding/finishing station for label converting applications includes a 7.5" web and permits easy side-web loading.

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Controls & Machine Components

Milk cap insert

Lustorite® Promotions (Chesterfield, MO) has developed a promotional milk cap insert. The LustorCap is a patented liner similar to those found in soda caps.

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Controls & Machine Components

Aseptic vial filler

The MAFS(TM) (mini aseptic filling system) from TL Systems (Minneapolis, MN) handles vials from 2 ml to 500 ml at speeds to 750/min with a 24-pump system.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pharmaceutical cartoners

Thiele Eng.'s (Minneapolis, MN) PSC Plus Pharmaceutical Small Center Cartoner runs at speeds to 400 cartons/min. Provides improved ergonomics, operating efficiency and reduced maintenance over larger cartoners.

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Controls & Machine Components

Garbage reference book

"Garbage Trash Refuse Waste Discards Rubbish & Junk: The Book-3" is a reference book from Nichols Dezenhall Communications (Wash-ington, DC) detailing the state of garbage in America.

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