Pneumatically Operated Push on Capping System

Abstract

Automation is constantly making significant impact on many industries other than manufacturing. Automation has been taking over the manual operations that have been carried out in the industries for centuries. By reducing the human effort automation completes the tasks in the minimum possible time. Bottle capping is a vital task for many industries. When this process is automated, industries require minimum human effort to complete the job in the least possible times. Push on capping system is an important part of many consumers goods manufacturing process in industries. However, the available automated machines are out of reach for many small and medium industries due to their higher capital cost. This simple machine can be designed and manufactured using low-cost readily available apparatus. In this work, a simple and economic push on capping system has been designed which can cap bottle automatically with acceptable performance. This machine will cost only one tenth the cost of the commercially available units in the market which will help small and medium enterprises to utilize their precious capital.