Machine capping group, services.

Friday 16 May 2014

Introduction to Mcg services.

MCG, services (machine capping group), are the new Agents for Zalkin capping machines in France, as a collective the group has 46 years experience in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industry.

Zalkin ranks as a leading company when it comes to sealing, screwing and push-on capping for all types of bottles and containers.

Our machine’s are robust and strong, ensuring our customer a long life span in sealing their products. From a penicillin vial, To a 20 liter container up to your favorite soft drink, we serve a common concern… the search for high quality capping. Every component is selected according to your cap, your container, and your line speed.

Our machine’s are made up of various components.

Single head, rotary, small rotary, de-capping and specific developments machines, eg, injection, aseptic environment and brushless machines.

Wednesday 7 May 2014

The ZC line inspection machine.

Can accept an on-line infeed of the bottles by an automated sampling system or accept an off-line infeed of bottles manually loaded into the system with 3 stations (torque, weight and leak test).

Automatically report the results of the analysis and the statistical processing of the measurements (curves, follow ups, machine capabilities,…), the results are correlated with each individual capping head and with each individual filling valve.

Can optimize your production costs, via preventive alarms by detecting and tracking drifts in your process variables before any loss in productions occurs.

The ZC line inspector is a stainless steel machine designed for an industrial environment. It can be integrated into a bottling line or as an independent system, it can handle multiple bottle formats, glass , pet, Aluminium bottles, and cans. Machine is designed for easy cleaning. It has traceability of the batches, anticipated detection of the faulty bottles, and optimized maintenance operations.

Removal torque control module.

Parameterizable cycles to measure,

v Removal torque(non destructive test)

v Or the bridge breaking torque (destructive test)

v Or the stripping of over-screwing torque (destructive test)

Can pick up with jaws or chucks. Data correlated to each individual head of the screw capper.

Weight control module with metrology scale. Control of the bottles weight correlated to each individual filling valve.

Leak test control module. This module pressurizes the bottle inner part to measure the pressure level to enable the detection of the leak in the seal of the cap.

This measure is essential for the carbonated beverages, maximum pressure test is 16 bar.

Integrated supervising system.

The cycle programming the quality follow up and the statistical data processing are accessed via an embedded touch screen. This interface is user friendly and efficient. The measurements are stored in the database of the embedded industrial pc.

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Details. (Click to enlarge.)

Elevators

Depending on the operating system or to reduce operator attendance, the cap sorter can be fed on a regular controlled basis via an elevator and the sorter are then linked via a transfer tube or a cap conveyer belt. Depending on the layout requirements of the elevator in relation to the machine.

Ø Blower type cap feed elevator. Designed for light and robust caps. As the horizontal tube of this elevator can be rotated 180 degrees it is suitable for feeding different machines. Storage bin 400-1000.

Ø Belt cap feed elevator. Suitable for fragile, heavy and large caps. Storage bin 250-800.

Waterfall type elevators.

These models can both transport and orientate caps. They replace the usual elevator and separate cap sorter, with their minimal handling of the cap they are particularly suitable for high speed applications.

Blower type cap feed elevator.

Belt cap feed elevator.

Waterfall small model.

Waterfall large model.

Cap sorters.

Zalkin mechanical cap sorters automatically feed the machines with the correctly positioned caps.

“Ca” type.

Designed for handling caps handling caps having a diameter greater than their height.

Universal type.

This sorter offers a high flexibility in use. It can handle either long or short flange caps of any diameter via the replacement or automated adjustment of the hopper disc. The operating system requires this sorter to be fed on a regular controlled basis.

“GC” type.

Suitable for very high speeds. This sorter is designed only for handling caps having a diameter greater than their height. Depending on the cap to be handled and the required speed , it can have a recycling system for incorrectly orientated caps.

"CA" type.

"Universal" type.

"GC" type.

Capping heads.

Zalkin takes particular care in developing capping heads, the Masterpiece of the machine. As cap designs continually evolve, Zalkin is the preferred partner of cap manufacturers.

v Screw capping with hysteresis type heads.

v Magnetic screw capping heads with chucks or jaws.

v Brushless screw capping heads.

v Push-on capping heads.

v Sealing heads.

v Decapping heads.

Screw capping with hysteresis type heads.
This technology is suitable for high
torques or large diameter caps.

Magnetic screw capping head with chuck or jaws.
Torque adjustment is controlled by two magnetic
rings, which can be set without tools to a
graduated scale on the heads.

Brushless screw capping head.
Each head is driven by an independantly
brushless motor. The torque setting is controlled
invidually and automatically adjusted.

Push-on capping heads.
Different models are available depending on the cap to be handled.
Vacuum pick up heads.
Mechanically activated heads with jaws.
Indexing heads for cap orientation.

Sealing heads.
Designed for aluminium caps they are fitted with
thread rollers and tuck under rollers and have a
no cap-no roll safty feature to prevent damage
to the container neck.

Decapping heads.
These heads are fitted with a 4 jaws equipped
with a no cap no decapping safty feature.

Turrets.

Zalkin screw capping, sealing and push-on capping turrets are chosen by most major filling machines manufacturers to be integrated in their monoblock. Designed to meet the filler pitch, the turret can be fitted with 3 to 36 heads. Often combined with waterfall type elevators, cap dedusting and sterilization devices by means of uv lamp, Zalkin turrets meet the increasing requirements for speed up to 70,000 bottles an hour, and makes packing lines more compact.

Sealing turret.

Screw capping turret.

Brushless turret.

Turret with steam injection.

Decapping machines.

The Zalkin rotary decappers with 3 to 24 heads are designed for the removal of both plastic and aluminium caps from glass to pet bottles with a speed up to 60,000 bottles an hour. Two models are available depending on the line layout.

- DR: Decapper with in-line conveyor.

- MS: decapper with parallel infeed / discharge conveyors.

DR decapper.

MS decapper.

Specific developments.

Machine with steam injection.

Twist-off metal caps, and some plastic caps, require capping machines with steam treatment in the cap chute and under the heads to create a vacuum into the bottle head space

Steam injection machine.

Machine for aseptic environment.

As a result of the increasing demand for delicate and short shelf-life products, packing machines are designed to meet more and more rigorous environments. Zalkin have therefore developed a range of aseptic machines integrating the following solutions, elimination of dirt traps, less greasing points, suitable materials for cleaning and sterilization procedures.

Machine for aseptic enviroment.

Brushless machines.

The brushless motor system for the application of screw caps provide the best possible solution for electronic control of the head speed and application torque. This is achieved via independent brushless motors with individual controls for each capping head.

Giving you the following advantages, constant application torque, remote torque adjustment, feedback on the applied torque, production tracking, automatic compensation for varying line speeds, pick-up and orientation of non-cylindrical caps, reduced plastic and pet dust generation, less greasing points and simplified mechanical items.

Brushless machine.

Rotary capping machine small version.

The “CAPM” type machines are based on the “CA” machine range, but dedicated to small containers whatever the industry may be (food or chemical) but mainly designed for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

These machines with compact design are manufactured with suitable materials to meet the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.

Ancillaries such as rotary feed tables for caps or bottles as well is infeed and discharge collection tables add to the scope of supply. The model “CAPM ST” has been specially designed for sealing Aluminium caps onto vials filled with penicillin or intravenous solutions via a simple blade, giving perfect cap sealing quality.

Screw capper with pick and place.

Multi-funtion "CAPM" capper.

Screw capper with rotary feed table.

Tuesday 29 April 2014

Rotary capping machines.

Rotary Capping machines.

The range of “CA” type rotary cappers from 3 to 24 heads are designed for sealing, screw capping and push-on capping and suitable for speeds ranging from 3,500 to 50,000 bottles an hour depending on the caps and bottles to be handled.

Different pitch circle diameters are available from 320 to 720mm with one or several turrets. For high speeds or fragile bottles, the “CA” type machine can be electronically mechanically synchronized with the filler.

Being highly flexible the range of “CA” type cappers suit various layout configurations for rear infeed or discharge conveyors. It can be equipped with automatic controls, rejection systems and quick release bottle change parts.