Garvey Tames Reverse Tapered Bottles for Rodney Strong
A while back I wrote a recap of a project we worked on for Rodney Strong Vineyards (love their Cabernet, by the way) on their reverse tapered bottle line. The recap appeared in Practical Winery and Vineyard. Reverse tapered bottles are wider at the top than the bottom. Our Infinity accumulation tables helped them bottle achieve higher throughput and meet their packaging goals.
July / August 2008 Issue of Practical Winery and Vineyard
Tapered bottles are popular with consumers, but they offer unique challenges on a bottling line. The bottles are wider at the shoulder than they are at the bottom and have a tendency to tip where normal straight-wall bottles travel easily on conveyors and traditional accumulation tables.
Rodney Strong Vineyards (Windsor, CA) installed a new bottling line in 2006 to allow filling and packing of the bottles (often called reverse tapered). Material handling technology was a very important and critical part of the engineering process when designing the new bottling line components.
“We were setting the line up to run tapered bottles at 180 per minute and it just made sense to use the Garvey Infinity tables. Last-in first-out tables do not work for tapered bottles,” says Jim Magness, Rodney Strong Vineyards facility manager.
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