| Confectionery Packaging Equipment 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Hooper, Jeffrey H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0834212374 ISBN-13: 9780834212374 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1998 Annotation: This book describes the type of equipment, particularly packaging machines, that are used to manufacture chocolate, biscuits and sugar confections. Hooper's book also publicizes some of the work that has been done in that field of engineering and to make known when, where, and by whom the industry was started. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Industrial Design - Packaging - Technology & Engineering | Machinery - Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General |
| Dewey: 688.8 |
| LCCN: 98038807 |
| Series: Chapman & Hall Food Science Book |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.31" W x 9.31" (1.20 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The machinery about which I am writing is found in the confectionery industry, but it is also generally used throughout the food industry and some other areas that produce items that need to be wrapped and packed for distribution. It just happens that much of my working life was spent in the confectionery industry. Similar machinery operates in the pharmaceutical industry, is used for wrapping and handling books, for wrapping blocks of fuel and for packing tea and other items. Some of the robots described are used in the glass industry, loading drinking glasses direct from hot moulding plants. They are used to load filled bottles into cases in the drinks business or shampoo for chemical manufacturers. Other industries, for example the textile industry, used machinery designed for other purposes (such as weaving), before the development of packaging machines, that worked on comparable principles. Some of the mechanisms in all of this machinery possibly have their ancestry in the great cathedral clock mechanisms from as early as the fifteenth century. Just because this book is mainly illustrated by reference to chocolate bars and sweets does not mean that that is the only application, nor does it lessen the ingenuity applied in the designs of these machines or their importance in the modem world. |