Category Archives: Machinery

15P Closer

Thanks to Cazander Bros. & Sis B.V., The Netherlands (cazander.com), for the photos of this Model 15P Closer, serial number 44.

The Goetz Model 15P closing machine has 4 stations, and is able to close between 50 – 250 cans per minute. Can heights 300 – 1008, diameter 401 – 702.

Edgell and the 11PSV Can Closer

In the 24 August 1959 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, there was a 7-page series of articles about canned food. Among the articles were entries congratulating Gordon Edgell & Sons Ltd. on the release of their new product – Edgell-Gerber Baby Food, manufactured at their new plant in Bathurst. Around the same time, in order to supply Edgell with cans for the baby foods section, Containers Limited opened a can making plant nearby.

The W. G. Goetz & Sons advertisement featured the 11PSV 4-head high speed automatic can closing machine, as used by Edgell.

 


Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Aug 1959, p. 14

 

Can seamer at the Containers Limited plant, near the Edgell factory, Bathurst. Difficult to tell in this photo, but perhaps another Goetz machine?

12P Can Closer

This can closer was designed to handle cans 70/73 mm diameter and 110 mm high. The 550 cans per minute Steamflow Cannery model included random straight line infeed and filler drive, able to handle diameters between 52 – 102 mm and heights between 37 – 180 mm.

Thanks to George from Fallsdell Machinery for the photos and info.

 

Catalog pages (undated) – 12 P can seamer, can closer

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