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Pickle Equipment
Solbern’s
involvement and commitment to the Pickle Industry is widely recognized.
Our equipment in this category includes Pickle Packers capable of
filling from pints to gallon jars, Automatic Spear Packers that slice
and pack pickle spears, Spear Cutters for slicing cucumbers into
4ths,5ths and halves, Half Packers and most recently The Solbern Slab
Slicer & Filler. This latest model automatically slices two
cucumbers into slabs and places the slabs into jars at a rate of 30
jars per minute. This engineering achievement was accomplished by
Solbern in response to the numerous request received from our Pickle
Industry customers.
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Model HVOP
The Solbern
Model HVOP can pack better than 240 quarts fresh pack pickles per
minute. The multi-lane feeder with bias cut discharge distributes the
product evenly along the entire length of the fluted vibrating shaker
pan. The shaker pan aligns pickles for feed into the jar mouth. The
rotary motion available on the Solbern packer assists the pickles being
vertical and tightly packed requiring fewer toppers. In the case of
gherkins, small pickles and slices, no toppers are needed to fill
required net weights.
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The filler can pack all fresh pack and processed pickles, gherkins,
onions, olives, mixes and peppers.
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The jar gripping rails can be easily adjusted to accommodate from 8
ounces up to gallon jars.
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Model 76 Spear
Cutter
The Model 76
Spear Cutter was specially designed to produce high quality cucumber
spears for hand packing. The machine’s unique centering technique
positions each cuke precisely with reference to the cutting blades.
With appropriate knives six, five, four or two slices can be made.
Cukes are manually loaded into cavities in the rotary feeder turret.
These are synchronized with the cuke centering chucks on the cutting
turret. After the cuke falls into the chucks, the cuke is debutted to
the proper length and gravity actuated plungers contact the trimmed end
and pushed centered cuke through the cutting knife. Perfectly cut
spears then slide down a chute to the customers conveyor.
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The machine will accept cucumbers up to 2-3/8” in diameter.
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Maximum speed: 80 cucumbers per minute.
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Rapid container size changeover without replacement parts.
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No product waste, all filling is done within the drum.
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High speed and accurate fill weights.
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Model DDSP Spear
Packer
The Model DDSP
Spear Packer is capable of slicing and filling spears into jars. A
bucket conveyor brings the cucumber in line with four feed chutes while
sizing each cucumber to a pre-determined length. A chuck assembly
centers the cucumber in relation to the five or six cutting knives. A
plunger pushes the cucumber through the knives, cutting it into 5 or 6
equal sections. A bead pusher guides the cut spears through the spear
tunnel and into the jars. The spears are positioned around the
circumference of the jar, creating a tight uniformly packed package.
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Available in five or six cut.
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Available only through a cost effective lease agreement.
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Spears are placed in the jars cut side facing towards the outside.
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PLC control option available.
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Model Slab
Slicer & Filler
The newly
developed Solbern Slab Slicer & Filler can slice and fill 2
cucumbers into each jar at a rate of 30 jars per minute, with no scrap.
The cucumber is conveyed to a chuck assembly, where a plunger will push
the cucumber through a knife assembly. The individual slabs will be cut
to a thickness of 3/16”. The slabs then enter the jar and the jar
travels to the second station, where the second cucumber is sliced and
filled into the jar. The outer slabs may or may not be included in the
jar, depending on customer preference. The customer has the option of
placing additional slabs, if so desired.
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Easy to operate.
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Low maintenance
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Quick pay back.
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