Confectionery Packaging Equipment

✍ Scribed by J. H. Hooper IEng, FIIE, MInstPkg (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The machinery about which I am writing is found in the confectionery industry, but it is also generally used throughout the food industry and some other areas that produce items that need to be wrapped and packed for distribution. It just happens that much of my working life was spent in the confectionery industry. Similar machinery operates in the pharmaceutical industry, is used for wrapping and handling books, for wrapping blocks of fuel and for packing tea and other items. Some of the robots described are used in the glass industry, loading drinking glasses direct from hot moulding plants. They are used to load filled bottles into cases in the drinks business or shampoo for chemical manufacturers. Other industries, for example the textile industry, used machinery designed for other purposes (such as weaving), before the development of packaging machines, that worked on comparable principles. Some of the mechanisms in all of this machinery possibly have their ancestry in the great cathedral clock mechanisms from as early as the fifteenth century. Just because this book is mainly illustrated by reference to chocolate bars and sweets does not mean that that is the only application, nor does it lessen the ingenuity applied in the designs of these machines or their importance in the modem world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
An introduction to packaging machines....Pages 1-10
Common features in conventional wrapping machines....Pages 11-43
The distribution of produce from manufacture to packaging machines....Pages 44-60
Basic descriptions of some of the most used confectionery wrapping machines and machine interaction with materials....Pages 61-84
Equipment that complements packaging machines....Pages 85-107
Form, fill, seal wrapping machines....Pages 108-161
Equipment that is allied to packaging machinery....Pages 162-184
The operation of machines for filling cartons and cases....Pages 185-210
Factory services, maintenance and hygiene relative to packaging....Pages 211-234
A packaging project: machine performance and used machinery....Pages 235-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-268

✦ Subjects

Food Science