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Superior Dairy: Blow molding of plastic milk bottles
At this Ohio dairy manufacturer, one floor above the filling line, HDPE bottles are blown and flash is trimmed. Then bottles are transported through a pneumatic tube to a bagging machine.
May 31, 2002
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Superior Dairy: Filling/capping for dairy products
Superior's 16-valve electronic weigh filler and eight-head capper are enclosed in a HEPA-filtered room.
May 31, 2002
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Superior Dairy: Stretch bundling of diary products
On Line Two, counter-rotating roll carriers on this stretch bundler stretch the film 150% as bundling is completed
May 31, 2002
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Superior Dairy: Robotic palletizing
The end effector on the robotic palletizer lifts and places slip sheets as well as layers of bottles.
May 31, 2002
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Diamond of California: Scale systems for shelled nuts
Computerized scales from Hayssen deliver accurate amounts of nuts on this 16-head system that includes an upper scale with a booster hopper directly beneath. Nuts released from the scales fall through stainless-steel tubes into vf/f/s equipment.
April 30, 2002
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Diamond of California: Side-by-side form/fill/seal machines for nuts
Filled and sealed bags of nuts discharge from two side-by-side vf/f/s machines onto a conveyor that runs perpendicular to them. Bags are then conveyed downstream. Meanwhile, printed film is pulled through tensioning rollers on one of the vf/f/s machines (right).
April 30, 2002
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Diamond of California: Automated case erector for bagged nuts
A key improvement to downstream packaging functions at Diamond of California is this automatic case erector. Erected cases are packed manually before tape is applied to top flaps (right) to seal them shut. An ink-jet system then prints best-before date, Julian date code, and line and shift codes.
April 30, 2002
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Avail Medical: Upgraded vf/f/s pharma poucher
At this contract packager of medical and pharmaceutical products, isolated in a curtained area, the vf/f/s machine drops the six-up packets to a takeaway conveyor at a rate of 60 cycles/min.
March 31, 2002
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A.R.C.: Computerized netweigher for roofing nails
Roofing nails are distributed by a vibratory feeder to the vf/f/s cone, which spreads them to the ring of 14 sets of buckets. The computer-controlled buckets provide the nails three-buckets-at-a-time to the bagger and onto a takeaway conveyor at a rate to 40/min of the 50-count, 1.5-lb bags. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.
March 31, 2002
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A.R.C.: Optical-based parts counting
Fasteners are sorted, individually counted by the optical-based units, and deposited into a 60?-long heavy-duty indexing bucket conveyor. The bol counter shown is one of 10 side-by-side units, plus two Thru-Wall bolt feeders‹that supply fasteners such as washers to a vf/f/s bagger at a rate to 40 filled buckets/min. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.
March 31, 2002
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A.R.C.: Vf/f/s kit bagging for parts
Counted parts and a literature sheet drop down the filling tube to the bag, which temporarily rests upon a platform to withstand the impact of up to 30 lb of hardware. An inclined conveyor leads to a bulk bin. Equipment was supplied by Batching Systems.
March 31, 2002
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Custom Building Products: Custom case packing for multiple bottle sizes
On a packaging line for bottles of building materials, case packing operations done for 16-oz oval bottles start with the servo driven laner followed by collation, case erection and cross-loading.
February 28, 2002
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Del Monte Foods Company: Labeler tandem in action for canned foods
For label roll switch-overs at the Del Monte Foods Company, a pair of interconnected label applicators from Universal Labeling Systems adds up to zero downtime, which equals high efficiency for this San Francisco-based food producer and distributor.
January 31, 2002
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Lohmann Animal Health: Filling animal vaccines
Right after single filing, bottles are conveyed to the four-head liquid filler from Cozzoli Machine.
January 31, 2002
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Lohmann Animal Health: Stoppering and overcapping
Filled bottles of animal vaccines have stoppers applied automatically by equipment supplied by Cozzoli Machine and then are conveyed through a wall and into the foil overcapping machine from West Pharmaceutical Services.
January 31, 2002
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Columbia Machine: Load Transfer System
Many plants want to retain their plastic, Chep or expensive pallets for use in their palletizing and production process, requiring them to transfer their product to an alternate load base for shipping or storage.
December 31, 2001
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Global Beverage Systems: Empty bottle handling on bottled water line
On this new bottled water filling line, bulk bottles are depalletized by a Sig Simonazzi high-level depalletizer and then single-filed for delivery to the air conveying system from Descon Conveyor Systems and Consultants.
December 31, 2001
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Global Beverage Systems: 128-valve counter-pressure filling for bottled water
On this new bottled water filling line, the 128-valve counter-pressure filler from Sig Simonazzi is among the largest of its kind.
December 31, 2001
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