Feeding & Inserting Equipment
(9 companies)Packaging systems that sort, organize and insert packages or containers, usually associated with a filling operation. Plan to purchase new conveying, feeding and handling equipment? Explore our articles to get tips.
Feeding & Inserting Equipment Companies
Capmatic
Capmatic supplies bottle unscramblers as well as equipment for feeding and inserting desiccants and cotton into bottles for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical packaging applications. SortStar™ bottle unscrambler is designed to handle a wide range of plastic bottles. Using centrifugal disks and adjustable guides, the SortStart can run most bottles without the use of any change parts. Other machines include the SorbStar™ desiccant inserter, which runs at speeds of up to 300 bottles/min., the CottonStar™ dual-unit system featuring a servo-driven cutting knife and reaching speeds of up to 240 bottles/min. and the SynchroBlock™ desiccant/cotton inserter, which feeds multiple desiccants.
Hoosier Feeder
Hoosier Feeder Company offers custom systems designed feeding systems built to the requirements of their customers. Vibratory feeders orient and discharge parts in a repeatable position during assembly and other applications. Linear feeders come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and styles to fit the customer’s specific application. The HFC Flex Feeder is designed to present parts in a consistent array so that robots guided by vision inspection can effectively pick and place parts.
McGinn-Wilkins Automation
MW Automation is a supplier of feeding equipment shuttle feeder systems, disk feeder systems, vibratory bowl feeder integration, as as well as product spreading and laning.
Performance Feeders, Inc.
Performance Feeders specializes in customized parts feeding systems including vibratory feeder bowls, vision feeding systems, step feeders, centrifuge feeders, prefeeders, orienting elevators, and related feeding products. The Vari-Flex parts feeding system is designed for vision analysis and robot part selection via backlight compatible belt conveyor or by a recirculating turntable. They offer a variety of solutions for complex part geometries, small parts and families of parts that are not easily fed in conventional feeder systems.
Pineberry Manufacturing Inc.
Pineberry Manufacturing supplies several models of friction feeders used for automatically loading products, product literature (i.e., booklets, leaflets) and flat media (i.e., zipper pouches, envelopes, die-cut specialty pieces) into packages. Friction feeders are used with folding machines, vacuum conveyors, collation systems, printing machinery, vertical carton insertion, flat desiccant feeding and much more. The HSF series handles a variety of applications in widths up to 28 inches. Company can integrate its optional Pineberry Autoloader to automatically load the HSF Friction Feeder with products and flat media.
Silgan Equipment Company
Silgan supplies patented closure handling and feeding systems to ensure precise orientation and timing for maximum uptime and smooth operation on capping lines. Designed to deliver a wide range of metal closures, Silgan’s line of closure hoppers, elevator feed hoppers, sorting hoppers, inline cap dryers, product diverters, and related feeding equipment are rugged, reliable, and designed for easy maintenance and are available with custom features such as air conveyors and chutes.
Uhlmann Packaging Systems
Uhlmann supplies feeding systems for all pharmaceutical products: tablets, solid dose products of complex shape, caplets, multiphase preparations, ampoules, vials, and syringes. Machines include the vibratory feeder designed for efficient feeding with a high fill quota. Vibratory feeder handles all products of simple shape – such as tablets, spheres, caplets or capsules. Operating personnel have a clear view of the whole feeding process.
U.S. Bottlers Machinery Co.
U.S. Bottlers offers cap sorting equipment for filling lines, including vibratory or centrifugal (rotary) systems to be used in conjunction with its filling and capping machinery. Featured cap sorters include the Waterfall vertical elevator sorter for symmetrical, flat, and round caps. The sorters are fully integrated and tested alongside its capping equipment in the U.S. Bottlers facility.
WeighPack Systems Inc. / Paxiom
WeighPack manufactures feeding and inserting equipment to help feed product to the next packaging step. Product line ranges from automatic unscrambling machines and rotary tables to bulk feed hoppers and conveyors, vibratory pans, and robotic loaders for flow wrappers.
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