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Plastic bottles are moved safely and efficiently on high-speed lines with the Ring Jet conveyor veyors and the Multi-Purpose Volumetric Filling Systems. The Isometric Air Conveyor (IAC) was designed to control high-speed movement of empty cans. The line includes a new self-clearing turn,which is designed to ease the movement of packages through 90 (turns without hanging up on deadplates. Unlike traditional air conveyor deckplates,where all thrusters in the perforated deckplate are pointed in the direction of can travel, the IAC has airflow both with and against the direction of can The Isometric Air Conveyor can handle gently production rates of up to 4 000 cans per minute travel. Some thrusters direct air downstream and other upstream. The downstream flow is marginally stronger. By carefully balancing these opposing flows, the IAC does not allow the net airflow to accelerate excessively as the can travels. As a result, airflow and, therefore, can velocity of both straight-walled and shaped cans is tightly controlled along the entire length of the conveyor. Up to 4000 cans per minute can be handled with no damage in this manner. Gentle and Efficient Main reasons behind the development of the Ring Jet conveyor were the new shapes and the light weight of plastic bottles, which can weigh less than 28 grams. The conveyor gently moves shaped or straightwalled plastic bottles on high-speed lines by blowing air under the neck rings of the bottles. This action lifts the bottles slightly off the conveyor’s neck guide and floats them as they speed down a beverage production line from the depalletiser to the filler. The Multi-Purpose Volumetric (MPV) filler has been designed to precisely fill a variety of beverages, including cargonated soft drinks, hot-fill products, water, juices and beer in PET bottles. It has improved fill volume accuracy and provides for auto- COVER STORY B. Douglas Goodell Jerry L. East James W. Parker mated volume adjustment to facilitate changing to different bottle sizes. Reductions in changeover times are reported by the company to be as much as 75 per cent. Commenting on the new MPV, Douglas Goodell said, “This innovative filler provides a significant technological leap for our industry and will demonstrate our commitment to developing easy-to-use, cost-effective, low-maintenance equipment with excellent performance.” Further new concepts from Crown for cost-effective machines have been developed and are, “close to introduction”. BH VR Beverage Packaging 1997 5
DESIGN Style Comes to the Plastic Bottle Three young Italian designer-architects Luca Casini, Stefano Laforgia and Francesca Lavagna have redesigned the plastic bottle. They have remodelled it to fit the requirements of the consumer without losing sight of the limitations imposed by production. During the analysis of plastic mineral water packaging, they came across problems that had yet to be solved. At least up to now. Over the last few years more and more emphasis has been placed on the expressive and communicative role of packaging, something that has at times contrasted with the understandable need to reduce production costs. This trend has recently been confirmed in the plastic bottle for mineral water, given the need to highlight all the features of a substance that has no smell, colour or taste, that has allowed the container by its very definition to become the “vehicle” of the product image. Large glass – tear and stack A monomaterial, one-litre container in heatformed PET or PP with a film of the same material glued across the top, offering a cheap and effective way of ensuring reclosability. To enable easy stacking of empties, the closing film can be torn away allowing for a rational and easy disposal Cut and stack Minimising gaps of empties in the home.Given the reduced size of the opening, the horizontal cross section has been redesigned to facilitate pouring whilst the body of the container has been modelled to improve gripping and resistance to side and axial pressure. When stored, the glasses are placed on top of each other and set out side-by-side each alternate glass being placed upsidedown, the bases fitting against the mouths; the glasses stack easily. Roll-up – reducing the size of the empties Devised as an alternative to the vertical crushing of bottles which involves a number of problems. “Roll-up” proposes side-crushing of containers by rolling them up from the base, which because of its thickness, can also be used as a lever. An eco-compatible plastic strip with a low melt flow rate, wraps and fixes the body that has been folded back on itself. The tab stretches down from the collar,located at the base of the bottle top created by a side fixture on the mould. The edge of the strip has a ruckled surface to make gripping easier and to help fix it to the upper slotted hole. The tab is glued to the body of the bottle under the traditional paper label and is torn off as soon as the strip is lifted for waste separation after use. The Wearable water container system can be applied easily to most bottles used in the trade. Cut and stack – effective home stockage of empties This system has been devised studying the angles of the walls of the bottle to allow the stacking of the parts obtained by cutting the empty bottles close to the point of maximum cross diameter as marked on the container.One can leave an edge joining the two separated parts of the container, pushing down one of the two parts 180°, this can then be stacked with other bottles cut and bent over in the same way. We have provided small, lowcost tools and information for simplifying cutting operations as well as special A bottle crushed by steam 8 VR Beverage Packaging 1997
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