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Editorial Contact: Sylvie Reichmann ext.11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POSIMAT Handles Multiple Bottle Formats with No Changeparts Miami, Florida (November 18, 1998) – POSIMAT introduced its newest unscrambler model at PMMI’s Pack Expo ’98 in Chicago. The innovative POSIFLEX model is the first rotary unscrambler designed for changeover without changeparts. With a procedure that takes about one minute, the equipment only requires three adjustments to be made using a hand crank at one easily accessible point. With output settings automatically pre-selected on the machine’s user interface panel, the equipment is production ready at the touch of a button. This is welcome news for anyone in the packaging industry involved in feeding and orienting empty plastic bottles on production lines. However, it will be contract packagers and plants with frequent format changes that will benefit the most from savings in parts, labor, and overhead as a result of POSIMAT’s latest development. -more- - Designed for use with any number and most shapes of bottles within a specified dimensional range, the POSIFLEX operates with POSIMAT’s traditional fundamental principles; running with only two moving parts, the key word is simplicity. Randomly oriented bottles are bulk fed in a controlled manner through a loading window on the machine’s top cover, onto an inclined rotary distributor disk. As the disk slowly rotates, the bottles gently roll into custom designed selector pieces located around the perimeter of a counter-rotating orienting drum located directly underneath the distributor disk. The use of gravity in this process eliminates friction and enhances the efficiency of bottle selection and control. Whenever bottles are incorrectly positioned in the selector pieces, they are gently ejected for re-distribution back onto the distributor disk with a jet of compressed air. The selector pieces accept the bottles horizontally in a base or neck leading orientation. Since the necks are supported within the selector pieces regardless of their orientation, bottles can only drop through the discharge funnel below each piece in an upright fashion. While in the funnel, upright bottles land on a stabilizing shelf on the perimeter of the rotating orienting drum and are then finally discharged single file onto a short vacuum conveyor or POSITRANS pocket conveyor, ready for downstream processes. The POSIFLEX incorporates the successful standard design features of POSIMAT’s ACCESS unscrambler series. A user friendly “open design” is housed in a 304 stainless steel and polycarbonate enclosure with quick release panels for easy access. -more- - The enclosure increases safety and hygiene while reducing noise levels, and the entire machine is constructed of stainless steel and durable, non-scuffing materials. The open design prevents opportunities for bottle jams and resulting down time by eliminating the traditional wall, or outer skin of the bowl. Now automatic bottle rejection can be accomplished through the natural design of the equipment alone: occasional defective bottles which have reached the funnels are ejected by the centrifugal force of the rotating orienting drum. With the new POSITRONIC system, the machine automatically compensates for downstream conditions, protecting the process from disruptive starts, stops and speed changes. The line operator can observe all functions of the equipment in operation, and make selections or monitor downloadable machine status indicators on the easy to use digital user interface panel located on the front of the machine. Designed for continuous production with minimal supervision and a maximum output capability of up to 1,000 bpm, the POSIFLEX solution to changeovers now offers a benchmark for unscrambler systems. POSIMAT also offers depalletizing and secondary orientation equipment. More product information is available by contacting them in Miami at , or at their web site at www.posimat.com. ####