Bottle air laner/accumulator

R.A. Pearson's (Spokane, WA) models C9400 and C9600 PET bottle air laner/accumulators are designed to facilitate bottle conveying, diverting and accumulating prior to case packing or bulk palletizing.

Jul 31, 1995

Bottles are conveyed by a neck-guided air conveyor from one lane into an innovative swing arm that divides the bottles into a neck-guided accumulation area up to six lanes wide. The C9400 operates at speeds to 400 bottles/min; the C9600 to 600 bottles/min.

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