Capping bottles and crimping cans
Packaging and the packing of liquid nutrients : Fundamental operations concerning bottle packaging and canned beverage products made in workshops
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Capping bottles and crimping cans
Packaging and the packing of liquid nutrients : Fundamental operations concerning bottle packaging and canned beverage products made in workshops

Author : Pierre MILLET

Publication date: January 10, 2011, Review date: February 15, 2015 | Lire en français

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3. Capping bottles and crimping cans

3.1 Capping

Capping is the final operation in the bottling of liquid foodstuffs.

It will be conditioned by four parameters:

  • nature of the materials used to make the plug ;

  • type of container to be capped and, in particular, its ring;

  • tolerances and characteristics of the cap, ring and capping operations ;

  • cap application.

Notes on rings

The ring of a bottle is the part at the top of the container's neck that surrounds its opening (figure

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