The West Company

Genesis Machinery Products, Inc.

Thomas A Stalnaker

Bruce D Smith

William J Covert

Edward F Vander Bush

Eric E Shoup

Roy B Melton

Bernard F Sykes

Frank C Tammaro

J Donald Birtwell

Paul W Sirgenson

Bruce Smith

The invention is an apparatus and method for testing the residual seal force of the closure of a container, particularly a container for parenteral pharmaceutical products. An automated and instrumented press collects stress and strain data for a closure of a container for parenteral pharmaceutical products. An algorithm is automatically applied to the resulting data set, determining candidate residual seal forces for several data smoothing spans. Confidence levels are determined for each of the candidate residual seal forces. The candidate residual seal force corresponding to the highest confidence level is selected. The process is repeated and the results averaged to determine a final residual seal force.

Apparatus and method for determining residual seal force of sealed containers

In a system for transferring groups of containers from one location to another, a loading station including a transfer mechanism for continuously delivering rows of containers from the transfer station to a tray loading station. A device at the tray loading station is included for cycling the tray in a predetermined controlled sequence to receive rows of containers delivered by the transfer mechanism and to position them in a compact array in the tray.

Robotic tray loader system, method and apparatus

An apparatus for checking the fill level of a vial. The apparatus indicates the presence of a vial in a predetermined location. Light is sensed to measuring the amount of light which is able to pass through the vial at that location. A signal is produced which is porportional to the amount of material in said vial.

Liquid level detector system with fill-level signature detection

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West Chester, PA, United States of America

Thomas A Stalnaker