Controls & Machine Components

Ink coder

Ranger Industries (Tinton Falls, NJ) has introduced the Model 110 All Cast Reciprocating Ink Code Dater. It prints data horizontally or vertically in a 1" x 1" or 2" x 2" area at speeds to 90 cycles/min, in black, blue, red, green or UV.

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Electro Cam Corporation: Speed compensation fundamentals

A packaging-oriented tutorial titled "Fundamentals of Speed Compensation" is available from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL). Identifies how programmable limit switches can be used to allow devices with fixed response times, such as glue guns, to perform with high accuracy over a wide range of machine speeds.

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Controls & Machine Components

Steeplechase Software Inc: PC-based control

Books, tutorials and white papers designed to help packagers learn more about controls. A Practical Guide to PC-Based Control & Flow-Chart Programming is a new handbook available from Steeplechase Software (Ann Arbor, MI).

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

Triangle Package Machinery Co.: Vertical form/fill/seal system

Triangle Package Machinery's (Chicago, IL) Advantage CM vertical f/f/s system is designed for minimal maintenance. Its cross-seal jaw drive uses torsional couplings instead of sliding shafts, bushings, cams, springs and other linkage.

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Controls & Machine Components

'No-glug' pouring

Twin City Bottle (Minneapolis, MN) introduces its patented Kleenpour "no glug" pouring system for 2.5-gal containers. The extrusion/blown HDPE system is said to eliminate the mess and costly spillage caused by glugging that occurs during pouring.

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Secondary Packaging

Magnetic palletizing heads

Walker Magnetics (Worcester, MA) offers a line of magnetic palletizing/depalletizing heads that operate with hydraulics or pneumatics without external moving parts.

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Controls & Machine Components

Guarding system

From Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) comes Micro-Screen, a compact, point-of-operation guarding system for smaller production machines. Using an optoelectronic emitter, receiver and controller, the system generates an infrared light screen between personnel and hazardous machine components.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hopper for fragile items

WeighPack Systems' (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) low-level feeder for fragile products uses a low-level design to minimize damage to products such as snack foods, crackers, cookies, certain cereals, electronic components, solid pet foods and candles.

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Controls & Machine Components

Clinton Packaging: Cosmetics rounds

Wide-mouth round containers for creams and a narrow-mouth square bottle in 50 mL for lotions are available from Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO). Made from frosted glass, containers come in 1/2-, 2- and 4-oz stock sizes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Gelatin capsule filler

TL Systems/Bosch Group (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced the GKF 2000 hard-gelatin capsule-filling machine. Its unique rounded-edge design and newly developed cleaning system are said to provide cleanup that exceeds cGMP standards.

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Controls & Machine Components

Plastic syringe processor

The Model SPLP plastic syringe processor from Adtech Filling and Packaging Systems (Hatboro, PA) accommodates syringe sizes from 1 to 20 cc, complete with barrel and plunger at speeds to 120 units/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Conveyor mount

TapTone (N. Falmouth, MA) has introduced a new single-lane conveyor-mounted bridge assembly for use with its defect detection systems. Provides precision height adjustment of the leak detection transducer with a fine adjustment crank assembly and digital height indicator.

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Controls & Machine Components

Carton printing

The Autoprint® system from AT Information Systems (Mahwah, NJ) offers a unique combination of ink-jet and thermal-transfer printing. It transports, prints, bar codes and counts cartons for a range of products at speeds to 100 cartons/min.

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