Advanced Manufacturing Technology is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of air conveyance systems for bottles, cans, caps, and cartons. In addition AMT manufactures all the bottle handling components for blow molding applications such as perform handling, bulk bottle accumulation, table top, mat top, full pallet conveyance, and bulk palletizers. AMT also manufactures sanitary conveyors for bakery and meat applications and other ‘design-to-order’ applications. Each application is personalized to the customer’s particular needs.

Features and Benefits of AMT's Sequencing Damper Technology

Advanced Manufacturing Technology's Two Pressure Sequencing Damper air conveyance system (TPSD) is a revolutionary design able to handle modern custom-shaped, lightweight PET bottles. Our patented two-pressure system automatically increases air pressures when bottles are backed up, ensuring that the bottles are moved away at rate. By decreasing air pressure when the conveyor is empty, the TPSD system is able to control single bottle j speeds, providing the following advantages:
· Eliminates dents, even on 47-gram, two-liter bottles
· Eliminates jams, even on hard-to-handle cone-shaped bottles
· Minimizes scuffing, even on freshly blow-molded bottles
· Minimizes neck guide wear o Maximizes accumulation efficiency
Standard `long zone' two pressure systems get confused when their zones are half full. AMT'S sequencing dampers on 10-foot centers always know what to do!

Two Pressure Sequencing Dampers Include the Following Features:

1) One, three-horsepower, blower powers up to 60 linear feet of conveyance with five dampers. The longest blower zones, shortest control zones, and lowest connected per-foot horsepower on the market. The low blower count reduces noise, saves installation labor, minimizes maintenance points, and saves energy. As an option, one five-horsepower blower can power up to eighty feet.
2) Sequencing dampers control single bottle speeds and swinging in the neck guides for: the ability to run cone-shaped bottles, neck guide wear reduction, scuff reduction and dent elimination, even on 47-gram, two-liter bottles.
3) Easy-to-understand, self-recovering control philosophy. The one closed damper is over the back of the accumulated pack. A pack that stalls out triggers a damper, which gently sends it on its way.
4) Simple air-cylinder operated dampers with machined UHMW bearings.

Mechanical sequencing damper settings are set once at start-up by AMT professional service representatives for the life of the conveyor. Once the sequencing dampers are set, all subsequent pressure adjustments can be done from the control panel. High and low speeds are stored for each blower for each bottle size. The control panel touch screen allows operators enough control to manage the system through situations and variables (such as air temperature), but all factory settings can be returned through a single reset function.

Design Features and Options of Advanced Manufacturing Technology's Patented Air System

· Low friction, snap-on, neck guide material in 500-foot lengths eliminates joints and jams.
· Proprietary AMT high-wear material quadruples life over standard oil impregnated materials.
· Chisel shaped snap-on for bottles with tight neck-toshoulder dimensions. Available in both standard and high-wear materials.
· Snap-on material replacement doesn't require expensive factory assistance.
· Welded steel flanges provide more strength, for up to 20 feet between supports.
· Automatic merge and divert gates, fully guided throughout, for performance and reliability. Available in multiple lane (1-6), with a servo motor option.
· Six weeks from purchase order to truck dock, for a full system.
· 15, 10 and 7-1/2 degree inclines and declines provide clear access throughout plant o Manual side guides and legs for bottle size and shape flexibility.
· Air cylinder operated side guides for bottle change-over from the floor.
· Air cylinder operated neck guides for two finishes on a single track.
· Hepa filters.
· Hand-crank adjustment module for bottle height changes at tabletop interfaces.
· Line layout assistance and full engineering site checks, complete with AutoCad drawings.
· Full customer service support for new installations and existing equipmentAutomatic drop out gates.
· Turn key systems, including control panels, control devices, as well as mechanical and electrical installation. ·
· Guillotine bottle stops for reliability without damage o Complete systems, including bulk storage, preform conveyance, palletizers, full pallet conveyance and case conveyance, etc.

AMT Product List:

Neck Ring Air Conveyor
Table Top Conveyor
Mat Top Conveyor
Vacuum Conveyor
Drag Chain Pallet Conveyor
Bulk Palletizers
Preform Conveyor
Bulk Bottle Conveyor
Bulk Bottle Storage
Can Deck Air Conveyor
Specialty Deck Air Conveyor
Turn Key Installation
Complete Controls