Air rinsing gets spiced up

摘要

Anew air rinser, ink jet date coder, and machine vision inspection system are bringing significant benefits to the glass bottling of spices filled by Frontier Coop at its Norway, IA, facility. The idea for the upgrade got started when the firm decided it was time to give up on an existing air rinser whose useful life was clearly at an end. "It was starting to require a lot of maintenance to keep it from breaking down," says David Ovenshire, Process Engineer. Online research and a conversation or two with other engineers at the plant led Ovenshire in fairly short order to Morrison Container Handling Solutions (www.morrison-chs.com). The system Morrison provided uses timing screws to invert single-filed bottles, pass them over an air jet that blows out any unwanted dust or particles, and then returns the bottles to an upright position so they can proceed to filling.