BOTTLING MILK BY MACHINERY.
Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 31 Haratua 1911, Page 7
BOTTLING MILK BY MACHINERY.
The filling of milk bottles by ordinary methods is such a tedious task for large metropolitan^ milk companies that a machine to do the work has become aa absolute necessity. The latest form of milk-bottling machine is operated by two men, one to operate the machine itself, the other to see that it is properly fed with bottles; it has a capacity of 7,680 bottles an hour. Each operation, which takes about 15 seconds, fills with milk twelve quart bottles in one carrier and 20 pint bottles in another. With almost human intelligence the machine picks up. a carrier of empty bottles, moves it under and lifts it against a battery of spouts from which the milk issues, lowers and carries it to an apparatus^which automatically caps each bottle, arid then discharges the carrier upon a cajr. This car carries the.filled bottles either to a cold storage room or a platform from which wagons are loaded.