Carneys Point, New Jersey
GrowTopiaCanning Line,live in 3D
Every machine from the Cask equipment arrangement, built at true size and running at its rated 25 cans a minute. Walk the floor, ride one can from pallet to pack, or take any machine apart.
Starting the line
Line data
Cask Equipment Arrangement Upgrade 05- Rated speed
- 25cans/min
The Cask rating for the mACS filler and seamer.
- Output
- 63cases/hr
24-can cases at the rated speed.
- Footprint
- 22′10″ × 16′
The line as laid out on the drawing, with 45 in working height.
- Pasteurizing
- 22min
Through the Tunnel of Love, in rows of 12.
- Fill
- 2.8s
Under three heads, after a CO2 purge.
- Date code
- 2.4s
One lot and date code per can.
- Lid stack
- 9ft
One lid dropped onto each can before the seam.
- Formats modeled
- 3cans
12 oz slim, 12 oz standard and 250 ml slim.
Values come from the drawing and the makers' published ratings. They are model figures, not commissioning measurements.
Nine machines, pallet to pack
The line in the order a can meets it. Open any machine in the 3D explorer to see it running, or take it apart to see how it goes together.
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Shaker table
468 empties per pallet layer
A pallet of empty cans rides a scissor lift up to the vibrating deck. Each layer is swept toward the funnel, where cans single-file onto the gravity track.
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Gravity track and ionized-air rinse
68 cm twist, upside down and back
Empties roll down the chute into a twist cage that turns each can upside down, blasts it with ionized air from the air knife, then turns it back upright onto the infeed.
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Datecoder
One lot and date code every 2.4 s
An inkjet head on its own stand prints the lot and date code on every can as it passes on the 2 ft infeed.
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Cask mACS canner
3 heads, 25 cans/min, 63 cases an hour
Three heads purge each can with CO2 and fill it. The nitrodoser adds a drop of liquid nitrogen, a lid drops from the 9 ft stack, and the cam-driven seamer closes the can with a double seam.
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9 ft outfeed conveyor
9.4 ft at 12 cm/s to the tunnel
Carries sealed cans west to the tunnel, where they stop against the dead plate and form rows of 12.
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Tunnel of Love pasteurizer
Rows of 12, 22 min through
A pusher loads each row of 12 onto the belt. Spray headers heat, hold and cool the cans in three zones, fed by zone pumps, a water heater and a plate heat exchanger on the utility skid.
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Double-wide conveyor
5 ft of accumulation to the labeler
Takes pasteurized cans from the tunnel discharge and meters them toward the labeler.
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PL-501 wrap labeler
79 in long at true size
A spacing wheel gaps the cans, the applicator peels each label off the web, and the wrap pad and hold-down belt roll it on. The liner rewinds on the second spindle.
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Rotary collection table
108 cm turntable
A slow turntable gathers labeled cans inside its guide rail so they can be packed by hand.
Taken apart
Each machine lifts out of the line and separates into its assemblies, the order a technician would take it down. Hover an assembly to find it; click to look closer.
At the line
- Walk the floorAt 165 cm eye height, between the machines.WalkW
- Follow a canRide one can from the pallet to the packing table.FollowF
- Look from every cornerSouth-east, north-east, north-west, south-west and a plan from above.Plan
The film
Two and a half minutes through the room, rendered from the same model at true line speed: the crane shot, all four corners, eye level, and a can's-eye ride down the line.
The drawing
The same line as an isometric technical drawing, light enough for any laptop or phone.
- Four corner viewpoints
- All nine machines taken apart, part by part
- Speed, can size and labeler what-ifs, with a load view of every machine