The following information appeared in one of my blogs
several years ago. The information is still important enough to share again for
those who might have missed it the first time.
New England Machinery (NEM) received a call from a customer
who had a problem. They were using a
pocket-style bottle unscrambler to feed their containers. The containers were being fed to the
unscrambler from another room via an overhead bucket system. Occasionally the employee filling the buckets
would put the wrong containers into them.
As they traveled through the plant overhead, no one could tell what
containers were in the buckets until they were emptied into the unscrambler. At that point it was too late to stop them
from jamming up the unscrambler.
It would then take the company hours to lock out the machine
and clean out the wrong containers. In
many instances, the incorrect containers damaged the pockets and the pockets
then needed to be replaced. The replacement
parts were very expensive and took a long time to get from the
manufacturer.
So the company turned to NEM for a solution to their
problem. NEM built them its model
NEHHLPE-72. This unscrambler is a real
‘work horse’. It handles their containers
with ease giving them the production speed they need. But most importantly, now when an employee
makes a mistake and sends the wrong containers to the unscrambler, the worse
that happens is one of the containers gets jammed in the exit to the bowl. The operator only needs to open the door
(which automatically stops the machine), pick out the jammed bottle and remove
any incorrect size bottles, close the door, and push a button to re-start the
machine. It can all be done in minutes,
with no costly damage to any part of the machine. Removing the incorrect bottles is easy as the
sorting bowl is at floor level. No
ladders are required to get the components out of the machine.
The customer is very happy with NEM’s solution to their
problem. A linear-style bottle
unscrambler (like the model NEHHLPE-72), has a lot of advantages over a
pocket-style unscrambler. They have a
smaller footprint, don’t require tag-out to clear jams, they positively control
the bottles, are simpler to adjust and changeover with minimal changeparts, can
accommodate a large range of container sizes and shapes with easy adjustments,
integrates well with any conveyor, is gentle non-marring of containers, some
models can integrate an ionized air rinser, and some models offer an integrated
hopper elevator to reduce floor space utilization. The linear-style bottle unscrambler is also
less expensive. To learn more about the
comparison of a pocket-style unscrambler versus a linear-style unscrambler,
contact NEM at (941) 755-5550 or visit the website at: www.neminc.com
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