The Clorox Company

Raymond W Harold

Ronald E Heiskell

Thomas Gerret Dewees

Kenneth T Felipe

Jerry A Volponi

Orice Darlington

Lee Griffey

Frank M Knafelc

Ezra E Theys

Russell G Taylor

Carl L Bishop

Karl A Krause

A straight line capping machine is provided that wherein the cap tightening discs and the container grasping mechanism are synchronized to a predetermined relationship so as to prevent cocked caps, loose caps and/or scuffed caps. In particular, the mechanisms are synchronized to ensure that the tangential velocity of the rear cap tightening disc minus the tangential velocity of the front cap tightening disc is about twice the predetermined velocity of the container passing through the capping machine.

In-line capping machine

The present invention discloses and provides a dough preparation and dividing machine capable of receiving substantially spherical, filled encrusted dough balls and forming them, with a minimum of dough working, into flattened, 'D'-shaped configurations to increase the output of a conventional encrusting and co-extruding device for filled, encrusted dough ball products.

Dough ball preparation table

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Modesto, CA, United States of America

Raymond W Harold