Bottle Capping Machine

Bottle capping machines are industrial equipment built to securely enclose bottle tops with caps, lids, or snaps.

Functional designs of bottle capping machines

Bottle capping can be operational in three different ways, which affect their convenience of use, work time, and bottling cost. Manual bottle capping machines require the input of operators from the start to the end of their processes to function. They are purely mechanical, consume time, typically cheaper to buy but may up labor costs, as a higher operator cost will have to be factored in. Typically, they make the first options for start-ups with relatively low or modest daily workloads and a limited budget. Semi-automatic bottle capping machines are less tedious for operators to manage during production, as they are automated to a level. Semi-automatic machines essentially use air compression as their power source and are cost-efficient. They are also great for growing bottle capping machine factories, as they have a significantly higher range of outputs per minute than manual capping machines. Automatic bottle capping machines are the most time-efficient option, as they require minimal operator engagement to perform their capping tasks. However, they are electrically powered and so tend to be relatively energy-consuming. Wholesale automatic bottle capping machines are, however, the best option for large-scale bottle capping machine factories, as they tend to regress variable costing and essentially have the least impact on total overhead than semi-automatic and manual variants. This naturally comes from their capacity to produce the highest range of outputs per minute through a self-driven model that significantly deescalates labor costs.

What cap types do bottle capping machines fix onto bottles?

Before buying a plastic bottle capping machine or a glass bottle capping machine — be it a new or used bottle capping machine — you may want to check what type of bottle cap they fix. Bottle covers vary structurally, as you will subsequently see. Screw caps come with internal linear channels that lock with those on the external part of bottle mouths. Tamper-proof caps are designed with caps that change in appearance once opened to indicate that their packaging has been affected or their content is tampered with. Press-on caps are designed to be snap-fit and are great for tightly sealing the bottled content. Cork caps are made from barks of oak trees and so are synthetic bottle-sealing options that require pull pressure to open.