Replacement components for canning, bottling and labelling machines
Maud Kirk has recently introduced a range of components specifically targeting the replacement market within the canning, bottling and labelling industries.
With wet gum and self adhesive labelling machines, brush and sponge stations are often required to ensure that the labels are attached to the bottles or cans at the correct height and radial position.
The label must be applied smoothly, without wrinkles or air bubbles under the surface. To achieve this, orange sponge rollers are used to assist with the smoothing process and are supplied in various grades of density from 160-350. The porosity is available in fine, medium and large.
A brush assembly bar can also be used and incorporates many shapes and sizes with bristles’ diameter and quantity of bristles varying to help achieve a neatly applied label.
Where a front and back label are applied there is often an inner and outer brush assembly station. This can also incorporate multi brushes of various lengths and sponge roller assembles (refer image).
Label magazines, glue rollers, gripper cylinders and pallets are used to transfer the label through the machine and onto the bottle or can. Sponges of various shapes and sizes are attached to the gripper cylinders ensuring the label is attached within the correct timing sequence to the container.
These sponges are supplied with protective surface coatings of tef lon, allowing the surface to be easily washed allowing removal of any excess glue which may have been transferred from the glue roller.
Pedestals/foot plates are supplied in a range of sizes and surface finishes ensuring the containers are held in a central position when the labels are attached.
A recent innovation has been to use urethane clip-on locating rings to centralise the containers on the pedestals. This has allowed for quick and easy changeover’s when a multiple range of bottle or can diameters are used.
To assist with identification, the rings are supplied in various colours to suit each container.