Rotary Liquid Filler

ROTARY LIQUID FILLER

HOW WE DO IT

Attention to details, flexibility and versatility are what makes L\H Fillers the choice filler for our customers


SOME HIGHLIGHTS


  • Stainless Steel Fill Systems
  • CIP (Clean-In-Place) product Flush Systems
  • Fill Accuracy of +/- 1/16” (less than 2 mm)
  • Washdown Capable Systems
  • Speeds up to 1000 / cpm
  • Versatility

PRODUCT DETAILS

  • Sanitary Design
  • Vesatile and Flexible
  • Highly Accurate
  • Precise Bottle Handling
  • Safety By Design
  • State Of The Art Electronics

Theory of Operation of the Rotary Liquid Filler

There are numerous choices offered for filling to a “level”. Gravity, Gravity/Vacuum, Pressure, Balanced Vacuum, Pressure/Gravity or Balanced Pressure. The Gravity fill system is the simplest, most trouble-free method of filling water-thin products. Constant, consistent head pressure produces uniform fill levels. Heavier viscosity products run well on a Balanced Pressure system. Precisely controlling higher pressures leads to accurate fills and increased production. The balanced Vacuum system remains a good choice for glass containers. Thorough evaluation and testing of your products and containers ensures the right fill system for your requirements.

In each fill system the product is distributed to the nozzles from a centralized supply manifold. The fill cycle begins when the nozzle is opened by the presence of a bottle. The neck of the bottle is positively sealed by a rubber gasket to maintain pressure control while filling. The rubber neck seal is positioned on the return tube assembly of the nozzle at a specific setting which determines how far the end of the return penetrates into the bottle. The dimension from the bottom of the neck seal to the end of the return tube establishes the fill level in the bottle. This setting is adjustable for the neck seal can be positioned anywhere on the return tube. The greater the penetration into the bottle the fill level is lower, the lesser the penetration, the fill level is higher.

As the fill cycle begins and product flows into the bottle, the air, trapped inside by the neck seal, is forced out through the nozzle into the return manifold. It is important for the air to escape quickly so that product can occupy its space. When the product level rises to the end of the return tube the bottle is full. Excess, or overflow, product is naturally siphoned out of the bottle up through the return tube and into the return manifold. This overflow product is directed to the inside wall of the return manifold to create a laminar flow to reduce the chance of sudsing or aeration. 
Unique and innovative fill system and nozzle designs give our customers the accuracy, flexibility, and versatility they need. Heavy-duty construction, attention to detail, and prompt support assures out customers years of efficient, trouble-free production. That’s why L\H liquid fillers are the choice for our customers.

Infeed And Discharge

CONVENTIONAL DISCHARGE

Exclusive L/H neck star and guide provides precision positioning of the containers, eliminating the need for centering “bells”. The nozzle enters the container while still under the control of the infeed starwheel and similarly the container discharge starwheel controls the bottle prior to the complete withdrawal of the tip of the nozzle.

HIGHLY ACCURATE

FILL ACCURACY OF +/- 1/16” (+/- 1.59 mm) (on round containers)
 Precision cams and nozzle components assure accurate and repeatable nozzle positioning. Laminar flow design reduces turbulence and foaming inside the bottle. The nozzles discharge the product under pressure deep inside the container; they do not squirt in form above allowing fluid droplets to be blown out by escaping air as the fluid goes down in the neck.

MONOBLOCK CONSTRUCTION

L/H offers monoblock construction utilizing most major brands of capping turrets. Container transfer from the filler to the capper is accomplished by dual starwheels and both machines utilize a single drive for synchronous operation. 

TANGENTIAL DISCHARGE

For even gentler transfer where high, hot fills are required L/H offers tangential discharge. Here the filled containers are transferred directly to the capper conveyor without sloshing. 

WASHDOWN CAPABLE SYSTEM

By having all drive motors on top, the machines are inherently washdown capable. The standard NEMA-12 electrical system can also be upgraded to NEMA-4X, or NAME-7 if explosion-proofing is required.

STAINLESS STEEL FILL SYSTEM

Basic Machines for product such as detergents utilize epoxy painted mi8ld steel frame with plastic and stainless steel components in the product delivery system. Where greater levels of sanitation are required or when corrosive products have to be handled T304 stainless steel frames are quoted. For food grade sanitary application T316L stainless steel components are used exclusively. For bleaches and other highly corrosive products titanium nozzles and PVC lined system is employed.

VERSATILITY

Fillers are designed to accommodate a wide range of containers sizes from ½ oz. to 5 gallon. They can handle products from water-thin to syrups.

Container types

Glass, plastic, metal or fiber containers

Size Range

Container diameter (or lengths) up to 6.5” by 12” height on standard machines, with up to 11” diameter by 19” high on special.

CIP (CLEAN-IN-PLACE) INTERNAL PRODUCT FLUSH SYSTEM

A manual CIP system is standard and an automatic CIP system is available as an option. The nozzle circulates internally; eliminating the need of inserting a bottle under each nozzle.

SPEEDS UP TO 1000/CPM

Machines ARE BUILT BOTH AS In-Line and Rotary Fillers. They start at a minimum of 4 heads for the In-Line version and 8 for the Rotary version. Machines are large as a 12 head in-Line and 120 heads Rotary can be produced.

NOZZLE/VALVE DESIGN

L/H offers over 100 valve/nozzle types, special designed nozzles for sudsy liquids, for bleaches (titanium), for top and bottom fill, nozzles which create laminar flow to prevent air pockets, nozzles which drain themselves, and even nozzles for our competitor’s machines where they perform better than the original supplied.

BENEFITS OF THE LAUB/HUNT SYSTEMS

  • Laub/Hunt Packaging Systems offers: Gravity, Vacuum, Pressure or combination filling such as Pressure/Gravity or Gravity/Vacuum in adjustable or balanced systems.
  • No tools are required to change starwheels, center guides and guide rails. Minimum tools are only necessary for complete size changeover including container height and feed screws.
  • Customized construction to accommodate special requirements for each application providing maximum versatility for our customers.
  • Direct carousel drive is on top of the filler.
  • Fixed rotary table design, (a system better suited for high speed bottle handling than the rising platform designs).
  • Positive container handling.
  • Specially designed nozzles are supplied for each application to handle foamy or other hard to handle products.
  • Nine frame sizes, from 4x6 ft. to 10x12 ft. with up to 120 nozzles. Heavy duty square steel tube frame construction, on food or pharmaceutical machines all welds are ground to sanitary design standards.

STANDARD FEATURES

  • Steel frame construction
  • T304 Stainless and plastic fill system 
  • No container / No fill system assemblies 
  • Individually adjustable nozzles
  • Prewired NEMA-12 electrical systems
  • Product return systems
  • AC Drive with safety clutch
  • Safety guarding with clear polycarbonate
  • 10 ft. SS conveyor channel with 4.5”Delrin chain and half round guide rails with plastic adjusting knob
  • Manual Clean-in-Place system
  • One year warranty
  • Magnetic safety interlocks
Monoblock or synchronized capping systems
Available with most standard capper

OPTIONAL FEATURES

  • All stainless steel construction
  • T316 stainless and JIC Teflon hose 
  • Titanium nozzles for bleach, frame painted with DuPont “Omron”epoxy
  • NEMA-4X washdown capable electrics
  • NEMA-7 explosion-proof electrics
  • Bottom fill nozzles for foamy products
  • AC inverter drive with PLC
  • Infeed/discharge safety clutches
  • Clustered lubrication
  • Automatic central lubrication systems
  • Independent conveyor drive
  • Synchronized discharge conveyor
  • Infeed diaphragm pump
  • CIP-Automatic Clean-in-Place systems
  • Tangential discharge
  • Alert light tower with sound alarm

DIMENSIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS

Pitch Diameter Front to Center A Length B Width C Table diameter D Stations Available
48in 1219mm 47in 1194mm 77in 1956mm 60in 1524mm 54in 1372mm 6 - 20
60in 1524mm 53in 1346mm 89in 2261mm 72in 1829mm 66in 1676mm 12 - 25
72in 1829mm 59in 1499mm 101in 2565mm 84in 2134mm 78in 1981mm 15 - 30
84in 2134mm 65in 1651mm 114in 2870mm 96in 2438mm 90in 2286mm 20 – 35
96in* 2438mm 71in 1803mm 125in 3175mm 108in 2734mm 102in 2591mm 24 – 48
108in* 2743mm 77in 1956mm 137in 3480mm 120in 3048mm 114in 2896mm 24 - 54
120in* 3048mm 83in 2108mm 149in 3785mm 132in 3353mm 126in 3200mm 30 - 60
132in* 3353mm 89in 2261mm 161in 4089mm 144in 3658mm 138in 3505mm 40 – 100
144in* 3658mm 95in 2413mm 173in 4394mm 156in 3962mm 150in 3810mm 50 - 100
*Frame over 8 ft. are subject to special dimensions based on design

A COMPLETE LINE

Packaging Systems: Full “turnkey” service. Complete packaging lines designed, engineered, built and installed. Filling lines from bottle unscramblers to case packers with central control systems. Customer training, videos and full function trial runs prior to on-site installation.

Piston Fillers: Rotary and In-Line fillers, volumetric positive displacement piston fillers with accuracies of +/- ¼ of 1% or better than +/- 1 gram in most cases. Machines are available from 4 to 60 heads providing speeds up to 600 cpm.

Pressure Metering: Systems for viscous products.

Accessories

 In-Line unscramblers for bottles received in re-shippers, “No-Drop” case packers. Rotary Chuck and In-Line Screw Cappers, Fitment Inserters, Pluggers and Overcappers.
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