Zero Pressure Product Inverter
Specifications
- No rail changeover between products.
- No squeeze on the bottles, eliminates bottle distortion.
- Hot product remains at floor level, eliminating the possible safety hazard of dropped bottles.
- Polyamide housed bearings eliminate the rust problems with standard bearings in a wet environment.
- Stainless steel #304 construction.
- 3 Phase motors to suit plant power requirements.
- Stainless steel covers and guarding.
- CSA approved, UL recognized electrical control panel.
- PLC controlled with Allen-Bradley Micrologix 1000.
- Hand held programmer included with PLC.
- Stainless steel base chain, c/w plastic flights and high friction inserts.
- Link-Belt Klean-Gard polyamide housed bearings.
- Emergency jam switch on outfeed of unit.
- Normal line speeds of up to 800 BPM, depending on bottle size and contact time required.
- Positive emergency jam switch stops the machine before damage can be done, if the outfeed jams.
- PLC control allows for easy speed adjustment between products.
- Grease lines for wearstrips are run to central headers, with the grease lines labeled for easy maintenance.
- Downstream backup switch for shutdown.
- Centralized grease manifolds.
- UHMW chain guides through twists.
Options
- Two speed function will reduce stop/start of the unit on backup and allows a steadier stream of bottles downstream.
- Direct speed link to filler to reduce speed changes for product changeover.
- Automatic lubrication systems available.
The Bevco Zero Pressure Product Inverter (ZPPI) was developed to provide solutions for a variety of material handling problems and to reduce operating costs while maintaining processing speeds. Bevco ZPPI systems are highly effective in:
- Reducing package or container damage during handling.
- Providing processors with a method to help reduce container or package weights or wall thicknesses to reduce costs.
- Re-orienting hot filled containers to provide sterilization of the cap.
- Lines using PET bottles that are susceptible to bottle damage due to the squeeze on standard gripper type cap sterilizers.
- Dealing with safety concerns when processing hot filled product in plastic or glass where hot bottles must be lifted in the air.
- Lines where packages or containers need to be tilted or turned over to permit inspection, printing or coding.
- In food, beverage, consumer or industrial goods applications.
The Bevco ZPPI was initially developed to resolve a need in the juice industry to reduce costs involved in the process of hot filling PET bottles. Existing processes generally capture a bottle between 2 gripper chains, and either carry them vertically, or invert them and carry them horizontally to allow hot juice to contact, and sterilize, the inside of the cap. As bottles became lighter to reduce the costs per bottle, the standard gripper type cap sterilizers were starting to distort the shape of the hot bottles. The distorted bottles caused new problems by increasing the rate of rejection of the product, as well as causing line downtime due to problems feeding labelers with irregular containers. These new problems increase production costs.
To solve these issues, Bevco designed the ZPPI which does not grip bottles by the sides, but instead lays them down gently on a conveyor where they will ride for the required contact time.
The new ZPPI acts as a light touch cap sterilizer that reduces the amount of damaged bottles and improves line efficiencies by reducing handling problems due to distorted bottles. The ZPPI allows processors to take advantage of reduced bottle costs without an increase in downtime and production costs.
Vertical Cap Sterilizer
Specifications
- Quick changeover between products. The handwheel adjustment allows the Vertical Cap Sterilizer to be adjusted for different products with a minimum of lost time.
- Bevco's own design of grippers supply a soft, gentle grip for most standard containers.
- PLC control allows for easy speed adjustment between products.
- Stainless steel #304 construction.
- Anodized aluminum cast idler wheels for gripper chain on high load curves.
- UHMW corner at idler end.
- 3 Phase motors to suit power plant requirements.
- Stainless steel covers.
- CSA approved, UL recognized electrical control panel.
- PLC controlled with Allen-Bradley Micrologix 1000.
- Hand-held programmer included with PLC.
- Stainless steel gripper base chain, c/w PS plastic flights and EDPM ribbed grippers.
- Link-Belt-Klean-Gard polyamide housed bearings.
- Overall height is determined by contact time required at line speeds.
- Polyamide housed bearings eliminate the rust problem with standard bearings in a wet environment.
- Grease lines for working bearings are run to central headers, with grease fittings labeled for easy maintenance.
- Positive emergency jam switch stops the machine before damage can be done, if the outfeed jams.
- The short footprint of this unit allows for a maximum cap contact time using the least amount of floor space.
- Single handwheel gripper adjustment for containers up to 9" in diameter.
- Emergency jam switch on outfeed of unit.
- Downstream backup switch for shutdown.
- Centralized grease manifolds.
Bevco's Vertical Cap Sterilizer is designed to tip full hot filled bottles on their side to allow hot liquid to sterilize the inside of the cap. It does this by picking the bottles up from the infeed conveyor between a set of grippers, and carrying it through a 90 degree curve, and then vertically for a given distance. It then goes around a turning wheel, and is brought back down vertically, 90 degrees around a wheel, and set back down on the exit conveyor.
Options
- Two speed function will reduce start/stop of the unit on backup and allows a steadier stream of bottles downstream.
- Direct speed link to filler to reduce speed changes for product changeover.
- Automatic lubrication systems available.