MoreWine Filler/Corker - (Four-head)
WE664
Do you have production runs too small for mobile bottling but too large to do by hand? Not interested in spending $50,000 or more on a bottling line? This gravity-fed filler with built-in corker might just be the ultimate solution for your growing winery.
The Reservoir
The stainless steel holding tank or reservoir on top has a 1.5" tri-clover clamp connection. Connect your pump to the input and plug it into the control panel (220V). The built-in sensor in the holding reservoir automatically turns your pump off and on to maintain a consistent fill level.
Using The Filler
Bottles are placed on the black pedestals and lifted via pressure rams (requires compressor or compressed gas).Toggle switches located on the left and right side of the machine are flipped to raise and lower two bottles at a time. Bottles can quickly be set on the pedestals, and do not need to be perfectly placed in the center, as there is a self-centering feature on the filler heads that automatically aligns the bottles. The filler heads are made from stainless steel.
As the bottles fill, the excess gas in the bottle is pushed up into the holding tank. This is why re recommend pre-flushing bottles with inert gas. Not only is the wine entering the bottle protected from oxygen but the wine being held in the reservoir is also being protected from oxygen contact by a constant influx of inert gas.
Filling of the bottles stops at your predetermined height. You then flip the toggle to lower the bottles. The entire filling process takes less than 20 seconds.
The Corker
After two full bottles are lowered the corking person grabs these bottles with both hands and corks them successively. The corker is the same stainless, electric model we sell separately as model WE660. The built-in Vacuum system removes head pressure in the bottle.
Total Operation
Running the machine takes two people, one person to feed the bottles and another to run the corker. We typically also have one person sanitizing, flushing and staging bottles and another to recase bottles after corking, for a total of four workers. Approximately 700 bottles can be processed in an hour at a comfortable pace. This is normally an item we have in stock or in transit to us from Italy.
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