The Sterilizer was developed to resolve a need in the juice industry to reduce costs involved in the process of hot filling bottles. allocating the production team suitable time to restart the machine. It is designed to invert hot filled bottles on their side to allow hot liquid to sterilize the inside of the cap. It does this by picking the bottles up from the infeed conveyor between a set of grippers, and carrying it through a 90 degree curve, and then Horizontally for a given distance.
When the conveyor is empty, bottle speed is much higher, giving a quick catch-up on the line.