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DEPOSITING

cording to Eric Riggle, vice-president, Rademaker USA,
Hudson, OH. "Rademaker is constantly paying attention
to these five areas when making improvements and advances to our depositing disciplines," he said. "However,
not every depositor can address each of these areas."
For this reason, Rademaker produces three different
types of depositors - piston, gearwheel and Mohno
pump - each with their own set of options to provide
our customers with the correct solution to their depositing challenge.
What bakers desire most from their depositing sys-

▲ This patent-pending depositor
uses mass flow meters and pinch
valves to deliver precise amounts
of batter or filling.
THE PEERLESS GROUP

▶ This pump features a mass
flow meter for extremely accurate flow control of cake batter
to the depositing manifold for
consistent weight control.
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tems is quick access to recipe storage for fast product
changeover and heavy-duty machines designed and
manufactured for 3-shifts-per-day production, according to Lance Aasness, vice-president of sales and marketing, Hinds-Bock Corp., Bothell, WA. In addition, he said
they want the flexibility to run a wide variety of products and to rapidly change from pan to pan or product
to product.
John McIsaac, vice-president, strategic business development, Reiser, Canton, MA, also noted flexibility as
a key feature. "Small- and medium-size bakeries do not
want to buy a piece of equipment that
is dedicated to one job," he said. "To be
truly useful and pay for itself quickly,
machinery must adapt to the customers' needs and demands. In the smaller
bakeries, the bakers want a machine
that can be rolled around and perform
multiple tasks with multiple products
and a quick cleanup in between."
NEW PRECISION. Peerless displayed
its patent-pending Precision Depositor for the first time in October at iba
in Dusseldorf, Germany. The company worked on the new design for the
past three years and field tested the
product for the past year, according to
Mr. Crocker. "We developed our new
MassFlow metering and independent
scaling system to solve our customers' problem of costly giveaway," said
Andy Hovancik, president and general
manager, Peerless. "Depending upon a
customer's volume, product cost and
application, the Peerless Precision
Depositor can pay for itself in less
than a year by improving portion control and reducing deposit variance."
In one case, the company proved the new depositor
will save a company more than $500,000 annually, according to Mr. Crocker. Peerless incorporated mass-flow
metering into the dosing controller and software technology. These meters, which use Coriolis technology,
are the most accurate measuring devices for food or any
liquid product, he added.
Besides accuracy and repeatability, throughput is also
important, according to Mr. Crocker. "With volumetric
or piston-style depositing, there is a recoil action, and
the piston has to come back before it can actually go
forward," he explained. "The Precision Depositor has a
pinch valve that opens and closes, so our recoil is the
closing action, which takes less than half of a second."
Precision Depositors use programmable recipes and

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