[A Bridgeman Film Production, Fred C. Bridgeman Film Productions, Dundas, Ontario.]
[Seagram Logo.] The House of Seagram presents, [Trumpet Music.] Manual Packaging Methods.
A demonstration of manual packaging operations that have proven to give the best results with the least amount of effort.
[View of various bottled Seagram spirits.] This film has been prepared to help teach you the proper methods of manual packaging.
[Set of Seagram whisky bottles ranging from empty to full and labelled.] These are the various stages through which a bottle passes in the course of production.
[View of packaging plant, assembly lines and operators at work.] The first stage in the production of the package is the dumping and unscrambling of the empty bottles. The bottles are automatically fed from the unscrambling machine to the bottle-cleaning machine, where they are automatically cleaned by a jet of compressed air. When the bottles are cleaned by air on a manual machine, two bottles are taken off the chain conveyor at the same time, one in each hand placed over the cleaning machine; stems neck down, held for approximately one second, lifted off the stems, turned right side up and returned to the chain conveyor for transfer to the filling machine.
After thorough cleaning, the bottles move through the filling machine where they are automatically filled with the product to the correct level. Note that a cap is picked up in each hand, placed on alternate pairs of bottles and turned until partially tightened. Leakage is prevented through the use of hand-chucks, which complete the tightening operation. Although every precaution has been taken by filtering the product and cleaning the bottles, visual inspection is now carried out to further ensure that only perfect packages are allowed to pass this point.
Glue is applied to the label, which is then placed on the bottle. The speed and efficiency of the workers in performing these operations were acquired by training each employee separately.
The next sequence shows how an employee is instructed on the manual application of gummed labels. The body label is applied first. The neck wrap is next and instead of wetting the neck of the bottle, the neck wrap is pressed against the damp cloth to wet the glue. The bottle is turned on the cradle to complete the application of the neck wrap by carefully aligning the seam to form at the back of the neck. The back label is applied last. The bottle is returned to the moving belt with the right hand as the next unlabelled bottle is picked up from the belt with the left hand and placed in the cradle.
These girls have all had carefully planned instructions and they now form a team. Skilfully performing a gummed label operation with ease and efficiency. It is essential in all manual packaging that the same sequence is followed in each step of the operation in order to produce the best results with the minimum amount of effort.
The strip stamp application as with any other manual operation must be taught to the employees by a step by step method, similar to that demonstrated for manual label application. In the application of cello-seals it is essential that they be uniformly positioned in the location that is specified for the particular package that is being produced.
Certain customer requirements make it necessary to apply a revenue postage type stamp to each bottle. The position of the stamp is specified by the customer and it is important that it be affixed in that particular location.
A final quality inspection is made on each package in order to assure that no package is with an improperly applied label, stamp or cello-seal is permitted to be shipped from the plant. Each quality inspector has been trained to recognize any defect and remove from the bottling line any package that does not meet quality specification. The quality-approved bottles are now ready for packing and shipment to the customers.
The final manual operation is the application of case stickers that are necessary to meet the requirements of certain customers.
[Trumpet music.]