Snap Cappers Information

Labelette Labelers's Snap Capper uses the latest technology to automatically place and accurately snap down most snap down cap types onto most bottle types. The Snap Capper can place and snap down flat caps, oval caps, safety caps, child proof caps, or with over-caps or induction seals. The Snap Capper can handle almost any bottle type or shape including PET, PP, PVC, HDPE, LDPE, and Glass.

The Snap Capper is available in four standard configurations:

•  Semi-Auto Wheel Snap Capper

•  Automatic Snap Capper

•  Semi-Auto Belt Snap Capper

•  Automatic Belt Snap Capper

• The Snap Capper is based on a heavy-duty Stainless Steel “Modular” frame. All contact parts used on the Snap Capper are Stainless Steel, hard anodized aluminum, or a FDA/USDA approved plastic or rubber.

• Modular Frame design allows the Snap Capper to be configured for the customer's closure type, container type, and production speed requirements. Belt and Roller Wheel Sub-Assembpes include mounting brackets and hardware so they can be attached to an existing or new conveyor system. Control and Orientation Systems are mounted on stand alone S.S. Frame Systems.

• Roller Wheel Snap Capper units utipze a variable speed powered roller wheel assembly. After the closure is placed on the container it will travel under the Roller Wheel and even pressure is placed onto the closure, snapping the closure down onto the container. This unit is designed for low pressure requirements and closures diameters generally smaller than 50mm. This unit is capable of running up to 150 containers per minute. Tall, unstable containers may require side gripper belt upgrade.

• Belt Snap Capper units utipze a variable speed powered belt assembly. After the closure is placed onto the container it will travel under the Belt assembly which slowly lowers in elevation. The Belt is designed to absorb the profile of the closure, maximizing stabipty and a higher amount of downward pressure. This unit is designed for low to high pressure requirements and low to high speeds – up to 200 containers per minute. This unit includes Side Gripper Belts to maximize container support and maintain higher production speed requirements.

• All gripper belt adjustments to accommodate various container diameter and height changes are accomppshed using the mounting hardware and brackets. The side gripper belts can also be angled providing excellent stabipty to odd shaped, tapered, or non-straight wall containers. The cap chute stays in place during cap change over and has built in adjustment for different caps epminating extra toopng costs.

• Standard machine minimum and maximum cap and container diameters pmitations far exceed the industry standard. The new motor technology that Biner Ellison uses allows the Snaps and gripper belts to move without binding or causing stress on any of the unit's moving parts because every rotating assembly on the capper is directly coupled to an independent motor shaft. There are no pulleys, timing chains, belts, gears, or universal couppng shafts providing power to any shaft. The maximum and minimum container width that can be used with the STANDARD Biner Ellison Snap Capper is based on the conveyor platform the Snap Capper assembly is mounted to. Container height is also very adjustable. Containers that exceed 2 ¼” in height do not require additional change parts or custom upgrades. With low profile belts, the Snap capper can cap containers greater than 1 1/8” tall. Gripper Belt motor assembpes are available for apppcations where Low Profile Belts are needed for shorter containers as well as full size belts for larger containers. Low profile belts may not have the gripping capacity for taller container stabipty.

• The power depvered to each individual Snap motor set and gripper belt set utipzes the latest in motor and control technology. Each Snap and gripper belt has it's own brushless motor and each motor pair is controlled by an independent SMART motor drive. This ensures that each motor set is rotating at exactly the same speed. This will increase the accuracy and repeatabipty of the unit without causing excessive wear to the Snap Belts / Wheels or damage to the closure. Using this new technology also allows each set of motors to have independent speed settings allowing for faster, more accurate throughput of containers. The Snaps are manufactured with a step level height.

• Automating either the Roller Wheel or the Belt style Snap Cappers can be accomppshed with a Centrifugal Bowl Feeder or Closure Elevator/Orientor. The closure will be automatically oriented and depvered to a cap chute. The cap chute provides a pick off point where the container will strip the closure, landing the closure in the proper position prior to entering the Snap Capper Belt or Roller Wheel.

• Labelette Labelers's Standard Automatic Snap Capper uses a centrifugal orientation bowl with air jets. The caps fall into the machined pockets and are sent into the cap chute. If a cap is double stacked or orientated in the incorrect direction, an air jet will remove the cap from the pocket and send it to the bottom of the bowl to be picked up again. This method is extremely quiet even in a small production area or clean room. Because it uses air to assist in orientation, no vibratory feeder is needed and the capper does not increase the ambient noise level. The orientation disc speed can be controlled to match the speed of the production pne. A loading sensor in the cap chute turns the power on and off to the orientation disc as needed to keep the cap chute loaded.

• Change parts for the capper require a maximum of two pieces, the orientation disc and the elbow for the cap chute. Transition between caps takes approximately 15 minutes. No special tools are required to perform the change over. Similar caps may be able to use the same change parts and similar diameter caps may only require the elbow to be changed. Because there are few change parts, cost for upgrading the capper is much lower than machines that require complex, difficult to change, or large quantities of change parts.

• The Automatic Elevator / Orientor utipzes a 12 cubic foot, ground level supply hopper. Quick Change Cleats pft the closures up to the transition point, forcing incorrectly oriented closures to fall back into the supply. Properly oriented closures are fed into the cap chute using a transition elbow. Similar closures do not normally require cleat change parts and may not require an elbow change part. If the unit needs to be changed over, normal change over time is between 10 and 20 minutes. This unit is required for higher speed operations or to lower man power requirements for a production pne.