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Edna Valley Vineyard: Accumulation table for wine bottling line
Edna Valley Vineyard’s first-of-its-kind accumulation table from Garvey packs a lot of benefits in a small space. Positioned between a capsule applicator and capsule spinner, the 5’x6’ oval table boosts bottling efficiency by 20%. It provides five minutes’ accumulation at rates of 120 bottles/min.
November 30, 2003
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Tropicana Europe: Air conveying/filling/accumulating/labeling/tray packing on aseptic filling lin
At Tropicana Europe’s new plant in Zeebrugge, Belgium, PET bottles are air-conveyed from depalletization to a new aseptic line from Procomac Industries.
October 31, 2003
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WeserGold: Sterilizing/filling/transporting/discharging for aseptic PET juice bottling line
PET bottle exteriors are sterilized with vaporized hydrogen peroxide during a summer test run on a new aseptic bottling line at WeserGold’s plant in Rinteln, Germany.
October 31, 2003
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Peak Foods: Tamper-evident banding for bowls of nondairy whipped topping
Bowls are conveyed into full-surround flights that provide a 360 degree deck that perfectly centers each tamper-evident band. Bowls are secured in the flights all the way from the infeed of the trio of tamper-evident band applicators through the heat tunnel. Tamper band applicators were supplied by Axon Corp.
September 30, 2003
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Peak Foods: Bowl accumulation for nondairy whipped topping
Bowl flow on the Garvey accumulation table downstream of TE banding and ahead of case packing is seen in overhead and floor-level views. Bowls will continue to recirculate on the accumulation table, which operates without active devices such as photoeyes, until downstream operations are cleared.
September 30, 2003
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Trine Labeling Systems: Labeling for new bottling line of bottled water
Music Mountain Water needed labeling equipment capable of running in excess of 350 bottles/min. But fast changeover and a compact footprint were also crucial. This Trine glue-applied roll-fed labler filled the bill.
September 30, 2003
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Snyder of Berlin: Weighing of potato chip snacks
On the two potato chip lines, the vf/f/s machines are topped with 14-head Ishida scales from Heat and Control.. Product giveaway has been reduced on several vertical form/fill/seal lines at Snyder of Berlin thanks to greater accuracy of 14-head scales, such as the one shown here. A combination of buckets is selected to dump the amount of snacks that best meet a bag’s target weight.
July 31, 2003
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Snyder of Berlin: Vertical form/fill/seal, bag discharging for cheese curl and corn puff snack
These continuous-motion vertical form/fill/seal Robag 2Ci machine are from TNA North America. To meet growing sales of its potato chips, Snyder installed two 2Ci machines, and then later a third. The new vertical form/fill/seal machines replace outdated equipment at Snyder of Berlin.
July 31, 2003
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F. Gaviña & Sons: Coding of coffee cans
A Videojet ink-jet coder that marks the lid of each 1-lb can of coffee with a production date code. It replaced an older and less efficient model.
May 31, 2003
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F. Gaviña & Sons: Tray packing of coffee product
Installed about a year ago as a replacement was a Model 127SL case/tray packer from S.V. Dice. Its rated speed is 35 cases or trays/min, though currently Gavi–a typically runs in the range of 25/min. After tray blanks are picked and erected and collated cans are pushed onto them, filled trays are discharged toward the shrink wrap system.
May 31, 2003
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F. Gaviña & Sons: Case erecting for coffee producer
Corrugated blanks are pulled from a magazine and automatically set up by this machine, which replaces a manual operation.
May 31, 2003
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F. Gaviña & Sons: Shrink wrapping of 1-lb cans of tray-packed coffee
This shrink wrapper, supplied by Packaging Machines Intl., replaces an older system. Tray-packed 1-lb cans of coffee are sent through a shrink tunnel.
May 31, 2003
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F. Gaviña & Sons: Vertical form/fill/seal of coffee bags
After film is pulled through a vf/f/s section and bags are filled with coffee, a heater bar heat seals the top of the bags. Later, a tin-tie is automatically applied and folded for each bag. Finally, each bag has tape applied to its top and the bags are then discharged from the machine.
May 31, 2003
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Baldwin Filters: Batch-printing system for folding cartons cuts inventory dramatically
On the Carton Pro batch printing system from Paragon Machinery Corp., flat carton blanks are pulled from a magazine, sent through three ink-jet print heads, and then shingled for case packing.
April 30, 2003
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ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager
At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.
March 31, 2003
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Universal Labeling Systems: Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed f
Designed for ease of use and quick changeover, the CP1000 labeling system from Universal Labeling Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) is equipped with the Label-Eye photoelectric sensor from Tri-Tronics (Tampa, FL), which contributes to fast setup.
March 31, 2003
Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders
This clip shows operators placing stacks of books and CDs in infeed trays.
February 28, 2003
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Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders
After orders are placed onto corrugated blanks, a scanner reads the bar code on the shipping manifest, placed on top.
February 28, 2003
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