Infinity Wine Bottle Accumulator Featured in PWV
The Garvey Infinity Accumulator is the feature story in this month’s issue of Practical Winery and Vineyard, using Rodney Strong Vineyards as a case study in bottling unstable tapered bottles.
The Garvey Infinity Wine Bottle Accumulator was featured in the July/August 08 issue of Practical Winery and Vineyard.
Three Garvey Infinity accumulation tables were installed to accumulate and single-file tapered bottles. Other accumulation systems, such as a bi-directional conveyor, cannot handle tapered bottles because they rely on back-pressure and right angle transfers to move bottles between conveyors. The Garvey Infinity accumulates and side transfers on a moving surface with zero back-pressure. “You can’t have more than about six to eight tapered bottles accumulate on a bi-directional conveyor or they start to fall,” adds Jim Magness of Rodney Strong Vineyards. “With the Infinity tables, the bottles do not back up.”
Read the entire article here.