Controls & Machine Components

Weslan Corp: Two-compartment bottle

Weslan Corp. (Denver, CO) has been granted a U.S. and international patent on a two-compartment double-bottle design. The 8-oz bottle can be split apart in the middle into two 4-oz bottles and then snapped together again.

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

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Transverse zipper

The Advantage T-Zip is a compact system that applies a transverse zipper onto the tops of packages created on a vertical form/fill/seal machine. From Triangle Package Machinery (Chicago, IL), the system can be retrofit to existing belt-drive Triangle machines.

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Controls & Machine Components

Mattec: Data acquisition software

ProHelp Millennium System software from Mattec (Loveland, OH) monitors, collects, processes and reports data on packaging machine operation and production quality.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Networked drives case study

The benefits of networked drives on a packaging machine are described in a brief application case study on Baldor Electric Co.'s (Fort Smith, AR) web site at http://www.baldor.co.uk/L4/servonode.html.

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Controls & Machine Components

Stone Container Corp: Case liner

Stone Container's (Orlando, FL) compact Stone/Pattyn high-speed case liner is a turnkey system that executes case erecting, lining and sealing, running at speeds of 15+ cases/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Crown Roll Leaf, Inc: Holograms

Retail-Vision(TM) holograms from Crown Roll Leaf (Paterson, NJ) are designed for use with luxury goods where high-impact, eye-catching foils and holograms provide depth, movement and brilliance, even under fluorescent lighting in retail outlets.

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Controls & Machine Components

M & M Industries Inc: Open-head container

The Life Latch® Superseal from M & M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) is an open-head container that can seal moisture in or out. It holds a vacuum, seals in a liquid and can be tightened-yet it opens like a household jar.

September 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Thiele Technologies, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Liquid filler

Quick-clean, modular Top Fill machine from Thiele (Minneapolis, MN) offers the speed of a volumetric with the cleaning and changeover ease of a net-weight filler.

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Controls & machine components

Can end maker

Rychiger MHM machines from Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) make consumer-friendly, peelable membrane can ends with no sharp edges.

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Controls & Machine Components

Parvex, Inc: Motion control software

Parvex's (Elmsford, NY) Motion Explorer software is said to permit users to make easy, step-by-step adjustments to optimize the company's drives and servo motors for a specific application.

September 30, 1998

Flow wrapping

Klockner Bartelt: Klockner Bartelt: Flow wrappers

Klckner Bartelt's Ho/oonsel Tevopharm NA Div. (Sarasota, FL) will introduce the Pack-200 medium-speed flow wrapper, which operates at speeds up to 300 pieces/min.

September 30, 1998

Filling/capping, dry

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery, Inc: Auger filler

From Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) comes a new brochure on its line of Digitronic® auger fillers used to package dry materials in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

September 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Altra Industrial Motion: Motor controller/drive

New space-saving, economic combination controller/drive for step motors retains features like plain-language and point-and-click programming. New SLO-SYN® controller and WARPDRIVE(TM) drive require up to 40% less panel space and are priced up to 35% lower than previous generation from Warner Electric (Ann Arbor, MI).

September 30, 1998