Composed of a single capping station placed above the bottle-transfer star-wheel which transports full bottles through the capper, the SR automatic capping unit elegantly and smoothly applies 55 mm long natural corks (⌀ 24–28 mm) onto glass bottles of 50–115 mm in diameter and a height of 200–380 mm.
- “No bottle – no cork” system stops if the bottle is not in place
- Cork diameter: ⌀ 24–28 mm; cork height: up to 55 mm
- Glass bottle diameter: ⌀ 50–115 mm; bottle height: 200–380 mm
Corks are loaded in the hopper – feeder, where are distributed into the feeding chute of the corking stations. Hopper design allows gentle cork orientation and distribution, avoiding cork chipping, which will form cork dust. Filled bottles are transported through the capping unit, with the help of a star-wheel, in a smooth step motion. When bottle is under the corking unit, its being lifted, with the help of mechanical bottle lifter, to make a tight fit with cantering cone under cork compression unit. If corking under vacuum is applied, the vacuum unit will create vacuum in the bottle neck, before cork in inserted. Corks are feed in the compression unit, where are slowly compressed and rapidly inserted in the bottle, with a plunger, keeping natural elasticity and molecular structures of the cork intact. The compression unit is specially designed, with 4 piece hardened stainless-steel jaws, enclosed in housing, which allows quick and easy unit extraction, with no tools needed. The compression unit can be extracted for cleaning or inspection. All the components’ motions are cam operated, allowing repeatability of corking process on all the bottles. Corked bottles transported from the turret with the help of a same star wheel.
Product specifications:
Main features:
- Conical cork hopper, with gentle mechanical cork orientation system.
- Cork descending chute.
- Bottle transfer star-wheel with smooth step motion.
- Cam operated mechanical bottle lifter.
- Cork compression unit with 4 piece hardened steel jaws.
- Cam operated cork insertion plunger.
- “No bottle – No cork system”, if no bottle is present, the cork will not be feed to the compression unit.
- Manual height adjustment of the top part of the capper, with height indicator.
- Air blow in the compression jaws, for dust removal.
Additional applications:
- Pre-evacuation of the bottle, with vacuum – corking under vacuum.
- Product levelling with nitrogen injection.
- Addition for closing of champagne corks.
- Cantering cone for different bottle neck.
- Electrical height adjustment.