Coding, Printing & Labeling

Infeed control system

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group's (St. Louis, MO) Mark II Synchro- screw infeed control system was developed to control the flow of containers at the infeed of fillers, labelers and other machinery.

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Tamper-evident machinery

Sara Lee puts its brand on take-home foods

Look out Boston Market!

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Controls & Machine Components

Planetary gearheads

The DuraTrue(TM) Series of true planetary gearheads from Thomson Industries (Port Washington, NY) provides peak torque ratings of up to 7굙 in-lb, and backlash ratings as low as eight arc-minutes.

January 31, 1997

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Central processing unit

PLCDirect (Cumming, GA) has added a new central processing unit (CPU) to its DL405 family designed for applications where both high-speed machine control and PID (proportional integral derivative) functionality are needed.

January 31, 1997

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Brushless servomotors

Pacific Scientific's (Rockford, IL) new 2" and 3" frame Sentry brushless servomotors use high torque per frame size with a medium inertia design for improved load inertia matching.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Booklet labels counter shoplifting

Promo Edge (Neenah, WI) now offers its traditional Booklet/Plus(TM) product line with Sensormatic Electronics' (Boca Raton, FL) Ultra-Max® acousto-magnetic technology, designed to thwart shoplifting.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Motor brake

The FMBES motor brake from Horton Industrial Products (Minneapolis, MN) uses spring-actuation and greater heat-sink capacity to eliminate the heat-related brake inefficiencies associated with electric motor brakes.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum pump

ELMO-L is an innovative vacuum pump from Siemens Energy & Automation (Norwood, OH) that emits only cool, clean, dry air, without carbon dust or oil emissions.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Mini limit switches

Aromat's (New Providence, NJ) NAiS AZD miniature vertical limit switches are applicable to U.S. and CENELEC conduit sizes. The modular design of the actuator unit, head block and main block allow a variety of configurations and easy replacement.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Air cylinder

Firestone Industrial Products' (Carmel, IN) 2M2A "Microactuator" is a pneumatic bellows-type air cylinder designed to provide smooth actuation in place of an air or hydraulic cylinder.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Machine guarding system

Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) has developed a new electronic machine guarding system with a compact, low-cost, DIN-rail mountable control box. It uses an optoelectronic emitter, receiver and a 24v DC control box to generate a "screen" of infrared light beams between a hazardous machine and personnel.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Cable carriers

E-Z Chain cable carriers from igus (E. Providence, RI) are designed with a split crossbar along the inner or outer radius for quick installation or removal of cables and hoses, without any tools.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Pinch valve

Flow Control pinch valves from Flow-Rite Controls (Grand Rapids, MI) combine precise flow control characteristics of needle valves with low-cost, easy-to-use features of pinch valves.

January 31, 1997