The something specific for the sleeves use would be to make the test bottles fit into the grippers of the filling machine so the test bottles could be put onto the line during a production run, so the sample would be taken during actual filling of the product, pursuant to federal food and drug act specifications on how to sample products used for human consumption.....AndySODAPOPBOB said:
SODAPOPBOB said:
Yes that is true, some bottlers had license from the parent company to add sugar to the formulas, but it was carefully controlled by the parent co.......AndySODAPOPBOB said:
Most liquid filling machines had a method whereas the charge of syrup and carbonation could be controlled by amount ( depended upon the machine and bottler) which is one of the reasons the formula was checked under actual running conditions. Our machine operator could even shut off the each head if needed. Heads are the stations on a filling machine which drop a tube into the bottle and fill it with syrup, these are actually adjustable as the machine is running, a good operator can actually follow the test bottle thru the machine, then it goes into another filling station for the carbonation injection. At least that is how our bottling plant worked. So the machine would fill the sample bottle with the formulated amount of syrup, the operator would bypass the next injection sequence and the bottle than would proceed to the capper and be capped thus ensuring actual operating procedure. We never sampled the carbonation fluid after the injection filler was loaded, each batch was checked before being put into the injection filler. Soda water is under pressure after injection so it was hard to check the bottles after that stage. you would just pull as many examples of injected (pressurized bottles) off the line for Q & A.SODAPOPBOB said:
