Packaging line begins with this pneumatic cleaner, filling and capping machine.

Hand operation affixes the specific stamps which are required by each of 33 different states.

Next stations are labeling (right) and strip-stamp machine that applies federal tax stamp.

needs and is primarily for emergency or odd-lot production use. Nearly all cases move through the plant in a continuous flow.

Controlling the constant stream of cases to the 10 lines below are three men; a panel operator and two conveyor men.

The panel operator sits at an elevated control board from which he regulates the incoming flow of the three conveyors from the unloading docks. He can phone instructions to the unloading dock,

but normally the experienced unloading crews are able to gauge what cases to send up.

After making wide loops around the supply floor, all cases converge in front of the panel operator. He sends them to either an upper or lower deck of a two-level roller conveyor that runs straight ahead of him across the width of the building.

Spur conveyors running off the double-deck conveyor lead to chutes to the first-floor packaging lines. The double-deck conveyors permit two pack-

OUTGOING CASE DISTRIBUTION

Filled cases are conveyed downward (middle) from the 10 bottling lines to this shipping floor, around another maze of conveyors to correct shipping point on railroad loading dock (top of diagram) or truck loading dock (right). Note conveyor coming in at left from emergency bottling line.