Controls & Machine Components

Bottom pump spray container

Stark & Associates (Charlotte, NC) has introduced an easy-to-use 3-oz refillable bottom pump air spray container. It's available with an optional foam spray actuator that uses air instead of gas propellants, and has an efficient pumping mechanism for faster pressurization and a strong spray pattern.

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Controls & Machine Components

Conversion factor guide

Schenck Weighing Systems (Fairfield, NJ) offers a free conversion factor guide to help on project planning. The guide provides an alphabetical listing of units of measurement, possible selections for conversion and directions for conversion.

October 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Induction cap sealer

Enercon Industries (Menomonee Falls, WI) has introduced the Compak(TM) Jr, a self-contained induction cap sealing system. It measures 7" x 12" x 14" and weighs under 20 lb.

October 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

UV-activated coatings

Waldorf (St. Paul, MN) has introduced Chamelacolors(TM), a new graphic enhancement coating for folding cartons that is activated by sunlight. Exposure to sun or black light activates the coating for a timeable color change that can take from 5 to 30 sec.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995

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.

October 31, 1995