Piston Filling Machine

Piston Filler Selection Guide

Application:This type of filler is best suited for viscous products that are paste, semi paste, or chunky with large particlates. These fillers are built to meet food grade standards and can also handle various chemical applications.

Examples:Heavy sauces, salsas, salad dressings, cosmetic creams, heavy shampoo, gels, and conditioners, paste cleaners and waxes, adhesives, heavy oils and lubricants.

Advantages:This lower cost conventional technology is easy to understand for most users. Fast fill rates are achievable with fairly thick products. Warning: this technology is nearly obsolete with the advent of servo positive displacement fillers.

How it Works: The piston is drawn back in its cylinder so that the product is sucked into the cylinder. A rotary valve then changes position so that the product is then pushed out of the nozzle instead of back into the hopper.

Peristaltic Filling Machine

Peristaltic Filler Selection Guide

Application:Specifically designed for high value, small volume fills at very high accuracy. Suitable for aqueous and other light viscosity products.

Examples:Pharmaceutical preparations, fragrances, essential oils, reagents, inks, dyes, and specialty chemicals.

Advantages:Fluid path is disposable; easy cleanup and elimination of cross contamination problems. Accuracies of 0.5% are achievable for fill volumes less than 1 ml.

How it Works: The peristaltic pump makes intermittent contact on only the outside of the surgical (product) tubing so that the product only touches the inside of the tubing. The filler's master computer independently tracks the # of rotations of the peristaltic pump head so that it knows precisely how much product has been delivered. When the target fill volume is reached, the pump stops and the remaining product fluid do not drip out due to pipette action. The computer stores all fill parameters in memory for fast changeovers.

Net Weight Filling Machine

Net Weight Filler Selection Guide

Application: This type of filler is best suited for liquids filled in bulk quantities e.g. 5 gallon pails, etc. or products that have a very high manufactured value.

Examples: Cleaning products in bulk, specialty high value chemicals, enzyme solutions, etc.

Advantages: This is sometimes the only practical (and legal) type of filling for a limited range of applications and for large volume fills.

How it Works: The product bulk supply is pumped into a holding tank above a set of pneumatically operated valves. Each valve is independently timed by the filler's master computer so that precise amounts of liquid will flow by gravity into the container. Gravity fillers built with bottom up fill capability can handle a wide range of flow able liquids including foamy products

Servo Positive Displacement Filling machine

Servo Positive Displacement Filler Selection Guide

Application: This is the flagship filler of our company and the industry in general. It is extremely flexible and designed to fill almost any product in any fill volume. Even 55 gallon drums can be filled.

Examples: The servo filler is found in all industries from pharmaceutical, cosmetic, dairy, chemical, food, etc. Both thin and thick products and also very large particulates can all be filled on this machine. Cosmetic creams as well as thick, chunky sauces at pasteurized temperatures can all be filled.

Advantages: Fill size changeovers are practically infinite and are instantaneous by computer control. Operator setup is greatly simplified. The design also lends itself very well to sanitary applications due to the ease of automatic cleaning.

How it Works: The filler's master computer independently tracks the rotation of each pump head so that it knows precisely how much product has been delivered. When the target fill volume is reached, each pump and nozzle is instantly shut off; resulting in high accuracy fills of your valuable products. The computer stores all fill parameters in memory for fast changeovers

Time Gravity Filling machine

Time Gravity Filler Selection Guide

Application: This type of filler is best suited for liquids with very thin viscosities that do not change with ambient temperature or with batch variation. This machine is also suited for applications where recirculation of the liquid in the fluid path is not desirable. Although this type of filler is used predominantly on products that do not foam, foam may be limited and controlled by subsurface/bottom-up-fill capability.

Examples: Water, solvents, alcohol, specialty chemicals, paint, inks, corrosive chemicals i.e. acids and bleach.

Advantages: This is the most economical type of filling machine for a limited range of applications. It is especially well suited for corrosive chemicals.

How it Works: The product bulk supply is pumped into a holding tank above a set of pneumatically operated valves. Each valve is independently timed by the filler's master computer so that precise amounts of liquid will flow by gravity into the container. Gravity fillers built with bottom up fill capability can handle a wide range of flow able liquids including foamy products.

Overflow Filling Machine

Overflow Filler Selection Guide

Application: This type of filler is best suited for liquids with low to medium viscosity. liquids with solid particulates not exceeding 1/16" can also be filled. Note that overflow fillers are the machine of choice in handling very foamy products at higher speeds.

Examples: Sauces, syrups, light gels and shampoos, foamy cleansers and chemicals, water and other non carbonated aqueous beverages.

Advantages: High performance, easy to clean, easy to operate, expandable at low cost. Offers greatest flexibility at lowest cost

How it Works: The supply side (dark blue) of a two part nozzle is used to pump product into the container. When the container fills up to the target fill height, the excess product and foam is forced out of the container (red arrows) via the return side to the original product source tank.