Controls & Machine Components

Roberts PolyPro: Roberts PolyPro: Spray bottle carrier

Roberts PolyPro (Charlotte, NC) introduces the PolyLift spray bottle carriers, available in narrow-center and wide-center versions. Bottle carrier is available in any Pantone color to match color graphics and has ample space for UPC codes/stickers.

July 31, 2001

Machinery: Page 914

Controls & Machine Components

PSI: PSI: Direct-coupled pumps

Bosch Automation Technology (Racine, WI) has introduced VPV 16-80cc variable-displacement vane pumps in a direct-coupled pump-to-motor arrangement. The pumps and motors use hardened spline technology for long life and are rated for 3ꯠ psi continuous service.

July 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Brecoflex Co., L.L.C.: Timing belts and pulleys

High-precision steel and Kevlar® reinforced timing belts from Brecoflex (Eatontown, NJ) come with a complete assortment of matching pulleys, clamps, tensioners, and slider beds.

July 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Parker Hannifin Corporation: Electric cylinder

The Automation Actuator Div. of Parker Hannifin Corp. (Wads-worth, OH) has released a new 125-mm electric cylinder. The ETB125 electric cylinder is designed to handle thrust loads to 45ꯠ Newtons (10ꯠ lb) and stroke lengths to 2군 mm (0.0787”).

July 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

J. W. Winco, Inc: Leveling mounts

J.W. Winco (New Berlin, WI) has introduced a new line of snap-lock, nonskid leveling mounts called Mounts for the New Millennium. Snap-on elastomer cup is said to outperform standard flat glued-on nonskid elastomer pads, which can separate from the mount with use.

July 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Technology report

“Polymer Foams—Trends in Use and Technology” is the latest industry analysis report from Rapra Technology (Shawbury, Shrewbury, Shropshire, UK).

July 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Depalletizing

On this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products, glass bottles arrive in tab-lock reshippers stacked on pallets. The reshippers are elevated layer by layer and then swept off on a discharge conveyor leading to the filling line by the Krones depalletizer.

July 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Uncasing

Bacardi was among the first to install this rotary uncaser from Hartness International on this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products. It uses 10 carriages continuously moving in a circle to pick bottles from reshippers and place them on a conveyor leading to the rinser/filler/capper block.

July 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Monoblock rinsing/filling/capping

On this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products, the cap hopper is nearly 150 feet upstream from the capper. This minimizes dust and clutter on the filling line. The rinser/filler/capper, supplied by Horix Manufacturing, includes a 60-head rinser, 80-head filler, and 20-head capper.

July 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Bacardi Bottling Corp.: Automated case packing

On this revamped bottling line for rum and rum products, the rotary case packer from Hartness International operates just like the uncaser, except in reverse. Downstream from the case packer, tab-lock reshippers have their tabs slit before flaps are plowed and glued shut.

July 31, 2001

Flexible packaging

A pedigreed pouch

Kal Kan launched eight 150-g (5.3-oz) varieties of Pedigree Little Champions wet dog food this spring in what appears to be the same foil-laminated pouch used for the company's Whiskas-brand cat food (see Packaging World, Aug. '99, p. 83, or packworld.com/go/whiskas). Little Champions sports an 18-month shelf life, and it carries Kal Kan's Flavor-Lock Pouch trademark.

July 31, 2001

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bakery wraps up production rates

Mail-order bakery Bellows House Bakery, Walpole, NH, found a resolution to high labor costs and low production rates in packaging its grab-and-go cookies and brownies. In fall ’99, manual labor and semi-automatic sealing was replaced by a Fuji-Formost (Woodinville, WA) Model FW-340mII horizontal form/fill/seal wrapper.

July 31, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister displays ink cartridges

Simi Valley, CA-based Hitachi Koki Imaging Solutions (HiKIS) repackaged its Dataproducts Inkjet product line from conventional paperboard cartons to carded blister packs that clearly show the cartridges inside. Additionally, color coding on the blister card differentiates the various brands.

July 31, 2001