New bottling machine for different glass jar geometries in continuous processes

Abstract

One of the main problems that exist nowadays in agri-food industries, is making more flexible production lines in continuous bottling processes, regarding different geometries and sizes of glass receptacles (cap/bottle). Present communication analyses different commercial solutions that exist nowadays in the market, and basing on one of them, proposes a bottling machine that allows modifying its electro-mechanical bottling capacity in continuous processes for different glass container formats. This innovative machine concept will allow working continuously with three types of glass jars, depending on customers’ demands, reducing delay ratio derived from this kind of machines, associated with manual accessory change needed to adapt machine to the size of the container.