Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

PLS speeds changeover, boosts reliability for Lever

A programmable limit switch speeds changeover and extends capabilities of new hot melt applicator and rebuilt filler.

May 31, 1999

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Filling/capping, dry

All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

All-Fill's (Exton, PA) Cerebus III Model B-400 auger filling machine dispenses powders, liquids or any dry product in amounts from 500 mg to 100 lb.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Leeson Electric: Basic Motor Training

A 79-page handbook on electric motors, AC and DC drives, gear reducers and gearmotors is available for free from Leeson Electric (Grafton, WI).

May 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Marprint, Inc: Label applicator

Applying preprinted labels to packages of any size, shape or fragility, the Paragon Express(TM) module from Marprint (White Bear Lake, MN) can be integrated into a line or can stand alone.

May 31, 1999

Controls & machine components

Machine vision white paper

A short white paper titled "The Object Location Algorithm, the Evolution of 'Search'" is available from Imaging Technology (Bedford, MA). Discusses how machine evolution has progressed since the introduction of Normalized Grayscale Correlation algorithm, used by many vision companies.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Clinton Packaging: Green glass containers

Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO) has added five green widemouth bottles, known as packers, to its line of amber widemouth glass bottles. The glass bottles are available in 75-mL (2.5-oz), 100-mL (3.33-oz), 120-mL (4-oz), 150-mL (5-oz) and 200-mL (6.66-oz) sizes.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Farason Corp.: Bottle filling machines

A wide array of bottle filling machines are featured in a new 6-pg color catalog from Farason (Coatesville, PA). Fillers are available with low vacuum, volumetric pump, gravity- or weigh-filling operation.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

MotionOnline.com: Economical AC servos

High-performance Sanyo Denki AC servo drives from MotionOnline.com (Duluth, GA) are said to be economical servo systems that can be an alternative to open-loop stepper drives.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Parker Hannifin Corporation: Automation brochure

"Packaging Industry: A Focus" is a foldout brochure describing Parker Hannifin Automation Group's (Cleveland, OH) motion control components, systems and solutions.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Parker Hannifin Corporation: Linear motor table

New LXR linear-motor-driven positioning table from Parker Hannifin's Daedal Div. (Irwin, PA) is designed for high-speed (3ꯠ mm/sec) and high precision (± 0.5-micron repeatability) applications.

May 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Ermanco, Inc: Merging conveyor

Products delivered by two parallel infeed conveyors can be merged and centered on the Herringbone Merge conveyor from Ermanco (Spring Lake, MI). Received from one of two side-by-side belts, products are horizontally funneled along the conveyor surface by rollers that are positioned perpendicular to it.

May 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Oden Corporation: Liquid filling systems

New literature from Oden (Buffalo, NY) details NET/MASS fully automatic net weight liquid filling systems. Designed for products ranging from free flowing to very viscous that change viscosity or density during the fill run, and for products that must be labeled by weight content.

May 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

TechniStar Corp.: Muffin-transfer system

TechniStar's (Longmont, CO) TMT Series transfer system for cake products uses an end-of-arm tool with as many as 36 vacuum cups to pick up baked and cooled muffins or cupcakes and place them in acetate trays, in one motion.

May 31, 1999