Controls & Machine Components

Conveyor accessories

Quick Release Telescopers® from Bryant Products (Oconomowoc, WI) reduce time and physical effort necessary to slacken, then restore conveyor belt tension and tracking.

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Conveying & accumulation

PSI: Conveyor stops

Newly redesigned compact cantilever slides are small but can handle high-impact loads, says manufacturer PHD (Ft. Wayne, IN). Series SA and SB Slides can carry loads for a wide variety of applications with dynamic side loads at up to 75 lb.

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Controls & Machine Components

Microcomputer system

The ET2000 microcomputer system from dun-Rite (Humble, TX) is a digital system designed to enhance the accuracy of dun-Rite can and jar vacuum testing systems.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink-jet system

The Jet-A-Mark IP 9100 small-character ink-jet printer from Matthews (Pittsburgh, PA) includes a new patent-pending Ink Cassette System. It's said to last three times as long as most other ink-jet cartridges, with a shelf life of eight months.

September 30, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

All-Fill Inc: Auger filler

The Millennium 400 system from All-Fill (Exton, PA) has a servo motor-controlled timing screw system that precisely positions each container through each stage of the filling sequence: tare measurement, filling, weighing, top-off, final weighing and exit.

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Controls & Machine Components

B.A.G. Corp.: Foil liner

B.A.G. Corp. (Dallas, TX) has introduced a foil "cube" liner that form-fits a container and fills without wrinkles. Said to be flexible, puncture- and tear-resistant, the liner is constructed of multilayer laminations of PET, aluminum and PE.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vibrating food conveyor

LeFloch's Titavib is a new type of vibrating food-handling conveyor available through the French Technology Press Office (Chicago, IL). Separate titanium trays move on top of flexible blades set in the composite base.

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Controls & Machine Components

Enercon Industries Corp.: UV/water-based inks

A seminar on UV-cured and water-based inks explores the advantages and disadvantages of the inks and determines their importance to various applications.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Husky Injection Molding Systems: No-tool changeover on fillers

MRM Elgin (Menomonie, WI) now offers no-tool changeover capabilities on its Husky fill-to-level filler and rotary piston filler. Infeed timing spirals fit connectors at either end.

September 30, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Chase-Logeman Corporation: Fill/stopper/tray load system

Chase-Logeman (Greensboro, NC) has introduced the Model FSTS2-12H automatic filling, stoppering and tray loading system. It uses a positive displacement servo-driven pump to fill glass or plastic bottles ranging from 2 mL to 100 mL at speeds to 120 bottles/min.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Motion control chip

Kollmorgen Motion Technologies (Radford, VA) has introduced a new motion control chip designed to simplify the motion controller. The PCD-4500 combines control and translator functions into one 44 QFD package, and operates as a satellite microprocessor to simplify motion design.

September 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Flex America Inc: Flex America Inc: Vibratory conveyor

Meyer Machine's (San Antonio, TX) Magne-Flex L(TM) vibratory conveyor is suitable for the horizontal movement of raw and finished pharmaceutical materials.

September 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Case sealer

A spec sheet from S & R Industries (Olyphant, PA) describes the Model SR4000T automatic random p-s tape case sealer. Machine specifications such as power and air requirements, production rate, case dimensions and machine weight are listed, along with available options and features.

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