• Expandable! Add more valves as your needs increase!
• Capable of approximately 3 bpm for 12oz (based on user dexterity)
• Double Pre-Evacuation and Inert Gas leveling ability standard!
• Primarily Stainless Steel construction and other food grade materials.
• PLC Controlled with user-adjustable times for total control of the filling cycle.
  

The "Bottling Buddy" is a union between our standard Tabletop Filler and our very popular Paradigm filler/crowner.  The Bottling Buddy is basically an automatic machine that has a slightly larger footprint than our tabletop filler.  It provides the small or medium sized brewery with a semi-auto or automatic filling machine.  Where a tabletop unit requires hand loading the filling valves and then removing them and hand loading the crowner, the Bottling Buddy takes care of the burden automatically.  You just load the filling side by hand or automatically with our rotary infeed table, and it'll fill, index the bottles to the crowner (optional), and crown each bottle automatically.      It sits on it's own stainless steel frame and optional stainless locking wheels can be mounted so it can be moved around where it's needed.  In the base model, the unit is hand loaded with bottles.  From there, the bottles are filled and (optionally) crowned automatically.  The user just has to feed in bottles each time it's done.  Filled/crowned bottles are ejected to the side of the machine.  The optional crowner provides automatic crown sorting and feeding, and holds several hundred crowns in its bowl.  Double pre-evacuation is also standard (vacuum pump required) as is Inert-Gas leveling for precise fill heights.  The Buddy uses the same proven filling valve that's been available for years on our Tabletop, Paradigm and Evolution filling units.    Individual operating times such as, pre-evacuation, CO2 counter-pressure, fill, inert gas leveling, snift and even pauses are adjustable by the operator. The Buddy also has an impressive array of options available such as expandability, as well as the ability to do multiple bottle sizes on the same machine.  A liquid ring vacuum pump and receiver tank are available if you do not already have one, which is used to provide the vacuum for the double-evacuation. 

The Machine

The base unit comes with 1 valve and no crowner, but up to 3 more valves and an automatic crowner can be added later on for increased production & automation.    The Bottling Buddy Filler is a great machine for the first time bottler.  It's inexpensive to own and operate. It will package with quality and consistency. Its heavy duty, primarily stainless steel construction will last for many years.  It's one of the best buys on the market today offering extreme product quality with the ease of semi-auto (or full automatic) operation!
 Although slower than the Paradigm in bottles per minute (because of the way bottles are moved around, compared to the Paradigm), it offers a less expensive entry into automated filling & crowning.

Pricing (Updated as of September 24, 2007)