The automatic plugger is designed to vertically place a fitment onto or a plug or stopper into the mouth of a container. These fitments and plugs typically cannot be applied to the container at angles associated with conventional snap capping machines or straight line capping machines. Moreover, the containers that these plugs and fitments are being applied to are typically quite small and require specific bottle handling change parts like timing screws and the starwheel shown.

Inline Filling Systems designs and builds Hazardous Location fillers and cappers specifically for solvents, petroleum products, paints, etc. We build both simple pneumatically operated machines for semiautomatic operation and also more sophisticated electrically operated machines with all of the versatility of our standard fillers.

The automatic vertical cap placer is designed to only vertically place a large threaded cap onto a rigid container and start the cap to a fully seated position on the container. It is not designed to deliver any particular torque specification.

This type of machine is often necessary on larger cap sizes above 80mm that do not seat properly on typical “inline” or “spindle” capping machines. Because the caps are typically large, the container bodies are also large and lend themselves to “inline” type container handling on this machine. This type of system, coupled with an inline cap tightener, has an economic advantage over large platform conventional chuck style capping machines.

The automatic chuck capper is designed to vertically place a threaded cap onto a rigid container and torque the cap to a specified application torque. This machine is used for caps that can only be vertically placed on a container.

This particular inline platform is used on more stable and larger containers where bottle handling is not as challenging. It is therefore also not as costly to build as the starwheel type below. The automatic chuck capper also solves the particulation problem of polymer tightening surfaces with other capping methods.

Single Head Automatic Chuck Capper is designed to vertically place a threaded cap onto a rigid container and torque the cap to a specified application torque. This starwheel bottle handling platform is typically used on very small containers, irregularly shaped containers or containers whose opening is subject to deformation when handled by other capping methods.

Dedicated change parts for cap sorting, and bottle handling are needed for each container / cap combination. This can provide precise torque and can eliminate particulation of polymer tightening surfaces that can occur with other capping methods.

This automatic chuck capper is designed to vertically place a threaded cap onto a rigid container and torque the cap to a specified application torque. This machine is used for caps that can be stripped off a cap chute by the mouth of the container. This starwheel version of the chuck capper is also used where containers are small or irregularly shaped or have wide mouths with flexible side walls.

Generally, containers that run on this type of chuck capper are too unstable to be positively controlled by other capping methods or the mouth of the container has a tendency to become oval when the body is gripped. Like other Inline chuck cappers, this version also solves the particulation problem of polymer tightening surfaces with other capping methods.