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Timing Screw Terminology
Summary
Timing screws can be specially designed either singly or in a combination of patterns to adapt to your machines specific requirements.
Running on a rotary equipment, a timing screw is accompanied by a star wheel to perform tasks such as air cleaning, filling, capping, labeling or leak detection. Placed alongside the infeed star wheel, the timing screw can be used to accept, separate, accelerate and discharge containers at the appropriate machine pitch diameters or pitch centers required for the particular machine.
From needle syringes to five gallon pails, timing screws can be made to perform functions not generally believed to be possible in packaging operations.
Timing screw design, however, must be the product of careful and deliberate engineering and with a precise tolerance that is the result of experience craftsmanship and computer controlled technology.
With extensive and continuing research, more and more applications are being handled by timing screws everyday. Call your timing screw specialist for advice gained from experience ... especially when designing new equipment or for feasibility studies.
