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Bottling Equipment – Discovery How It’s Made   by Pat Shebby

Are you a fan of the show How It’s Made from the Discovery Channel? If you are you probably have noticed the intricate process these products go through starting out as a raw material and ending with a finished product. Within the different seasons of How It’s Made they show the different machines that are involved in the different stages of the completion of the product. Some of these shows portray products such as food or beverages, a common interest in today’s culture.

Many of us enjoy a soda here and there while others prefer water however both of these products involve with similar pieces of equipment that are used to transfer gallons of liquid mixed in large tanks to the individual bottles that end up in your pantries or refrigerators, now picture doing all that by hand. For example, if you’re interested in Brewing Beer and you manage to come up with the next Samuel Adams best seller you would run into problems distributing it to millions of thirsty customers. These bottling machines allow us to mass produce products and get them to all our end users.

When you walk into a grocery store and you pass through the condiments aisle you see a number of containers that are usually the same in many other grocery stores around the world. How is this possible you ask? Well there are machines that are capable of bottling all sorts of edible or inedible things that allow us to mass produce them. I will give you a brief walk through of the tedious tasks involved with bottling equipment (imagine the narrator’s voice from How Its Made).

1. Plastic or glass bottles ranging in size from small vials to large jugs start passing through these machine.

2. Next, depending on the company the container may be labeled before the filling process or after.

3. The bottles or containers follow one by one normally in a single file line through a machine called a rotary filler machine where they are basically held in place as they spin around the filling process.

4. The liquid is dumped into the funnel(s) of the machine where it is then dispensed into the containers designated for the product. Depending on the product being bottled it can range from 100 to 400 bottles filled per minute.

5. These containers then exit the bottling equipment machine into the capping machine where the container or bottles are sealed. It then follows down the rest of the production line where these containers are bundled together so they can be shipped in large quantities.

So the next time you’re wiping your milk mustache or about to open up that jar of pickles for lunch, remember the process it took before it got into your hands. Thanks to the improvements in modern technology mass production has become more efficient in both cost and time.

About the Author

MY name is Pat Shebby and I am very interested in bottling equipment since industrial machinery has replaced the jobs of thousands.
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