Package Automation Company
Solutions to Your Project Requirements
- FILLERS
- CAPPERS
- LABELERS
- METAL DETECTION
- CHECK WEIGHERS
- INSPECTION
- CARTONERS
- CASE PACKERS
- PALLETIZERS
- COATING
- VERTICAL FORM FILL SEAL
- HORIZONTAL FORM FILL SEAL
- STRETCH/SHRINK BUNDLING
- MONOBLOCK FILLING/CLOSING
- CASE ERECTORS/SEALERS
- MIXING BLENDING TECHNOLOGY
- DEPALLETIZERS
- DRUM/TOTE FILLING
- DECASING
- UNSCRAMBLERS
- INTEGRATION
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- SITE ANALYSIS
The Single Station Tandem Capper is a complete capping system which includes the cap bulk supply, cap orienting and delivery, cap placement and tightening, and container ingress, staging and discharge onto the customer-supplied existing conveyor. Featured in the design of this machine is a single capping station utilizing tandem indexing capping heads, a multi-position indexing rotary container starwheel, and one bulk supply orienting system. The Single Station Tandem Capper provides a positive capping means in a compact footprint.
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The operation of the Single Station Tandem Capping System includes the retrieval of caps from the bulk supply hopper, which are then oriented by an elevator orienter, or by a sorting bowl, and transported to the cap pickup station. This single lane flow method provides simplicity in materials handling. The cap selection and application process is also straight-forward. Utilizing our patented Cap Chuck, caps are selected, gripped and applied to the customer’s desired application torque. The Cap Chuck is designed to eliminate cross threading and outer cap surface damage while applying desired torques.
The combination of the multi-position indexing starwheel and tandem head is a solid machine platform to integrate and perform other sequential packaging processes, such as plugging, overcapping, labeling and inspecting. Contact us for further details. |
 Single Station Tandem Capping System (shown with optional hopper elevator and sorter bowl) |
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Accurate: The Rotary Cap Placement System is a continuous motion, rotary device which precisely places screw caps onto threaded containers and engages the threads before releasing the cap and container from the applicator. Caps are perfectly aligned every time. No cocked or skewed caps!
Economical: The Rotary Cap Placement System can be mounted directly next to the cap tightener. The Rotary Cap Placement System comes with a deluxe 10" x 6' delrin table top conveyor.
Versatile: This Rotary Cap Placement System is ideal if your bottles are heading directly to an induction sealing device. |
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Close-up of capping area |
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The cap applicator and retorquer/cap tightener combine the functions of cap sorting, cap feeding and alignment, and cap tightening in one system. The cap applicator with the retorquer/cap tightener is positioned over a supplied 10' conveyor. Caps are fed to a bulk supply hopper or sorting bowl and transported on elevator cleats to the discharge chute. The orienting elevator allows correctly oriented caps to reach the discharge chute, while incorrectly oriented caps are rejected back to the hopper. The caps exit the elevator and travel through the discharge chute to the upper starwheel where the caps are transferred to the cap applicator. The containers, meanwhile, enter the lower starwheel, are aligned directly below the caps and the caps are placed directly onto the containers and rotated until the threads are engaged. After the caps are placed on the containers they exit the cap applicator and are captured by dual running belts in the retorquer/cap tightener where final torque is applied. The speed of these belts is set in precise relation to conveyor speed and tightening roller speed. The running belts have full control of the container through to discharge. |
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