Capping Turret

The bottle is then transferred to the pick and place type screw capper. Here the cap is picked up by the adjustable torque chuck and firmly tightened onto the bottle mouth. The capping chucks are finest quality precision component fitted with magnetic torque controlling coupling. This eliminates heat generation which normally occurs in friction type coupling in the chucks Flexible segmented cap holder picks up the caps. This compensates minor variation in cap diameter occurring due to long storage of caps in boxes.
The capping torque can be set between 8 to 16 inch pound with minimum of time and set torque is maintained consistently. The cap delivery chute has a built-in cap washing system. The cap will not be picked up if there is no bottle hence there will be no wastage of caps.

• The cap delivery is from a hopper based on the ground level making loading of caps easier and also ensures the cap is delivered the right side up to the cap rinsing system.
• The capping turret is of a pick and place type which delivers the cap to the holder, this leads to improved cap tightening at high speeds.
• There is a cap rinser in the delivery chute from the hopper to the capping star wheel that insures any contaminants during storage of the cap are removed.
• The elevator cap hopper is placed on the floor level and so makes material handling and cap loading easier.
• The chute from hopper to capper has sensors in place to ensure that when the chute is full elevator motor stops. If the caps are not delivered till low level of chute- the machine will stop   and show alarm signal on panel.
• There is a no bottle- no cap system in place to prevent wastage of caps.
• There is an ejector mechanism in each capping chuck in case the cap is picked up when there is no bottle.