

Simon Robson chooses a large bottle of Grey Goose Vodka from the Duty Free Americas Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Simon Robson, who is about to fly to Amsterdam, takes a sample from assistant store Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Minibottles of alcohol for sale at the Duty Free Americas shop at the Salt Lake City Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Simon Robson, a resident of the U.K., looks over alcohol for sale prior to his trip Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Mini liquor bottles photographed Thursday December 22, 2016. The 3M case taper and Weber print-and-apply labeler bring the line to a close.Mini liquor bottles photographed Thursday December 22, 2016. Then bottles are manually placed back into their corrugated reshippers.

Next is a unit from Collopack that applies a tamper-evident seal around the neck. Once out of the Fogg system, bottles are conveyed through the pressure-sensitive P.E. Cork is notorious for generating dust, so vacuum hoses attached to the enclosed block do a good job of removing cork dust that might otherwise make its way into a bottle or might even cause machine downtime if given enough time to build up. Second, a very efficient “de-dusting” system is in place.
This is to keep plant dust from making its way back into a bottle after it’s been rinsed. First, the whole rinse/fill/cap block is fully enclosed by a roof of sorts. Two last observations on the Fogg system. After cases are taped shut, a print-and-apply labeler brings the line to a close. The filled bottles then are conveyed out of the Fogg system. As the reciprocating device strokes back to get another cork, a freshly filled bottle arrives beneath the insertion device, which strokes down to put cork into bottle. Corks move from a floor-level hopper up to an overhead position and then are fed down a chute to a reciprocating device that picks one cork at a time and presents it to an insertion device that lifts the cork out.

Filled bottles move through another feed screw exchange to enter the single-head pick-and-place corker.
