Show us filler & capper rigs here!

[funtourist]

There seems to be a real shortage of benchtop counter pressure bottlers out there for homebrewers. The only one that is currently for sale is wensel's counter pressure filler. It doesn't have a dip tube that reaches the bottom of the bottle.http://wenselent.com/

More semi-comercial examples are manufactured by HDP.
http://www.hdpcanada.com/Fillers%20information%20sheet.pdf

The 2 problems that make counter-pressure bottling difficult for a singe homebrewer to do, are the ability to fill several bottles simultaneously, then cap all at once.

I've seen rigs where 6 bottles are loaded in a tray, 6 fill heads come down and fill, then heads lift up and tray slides to the right under 6 capping heads.

Both filling and capping heads run off of pneumatic cylinders.

I built a jerry rigged pvc stand for more-beer filler that at the least, holds the filler while I am doing the capping on a single bottle.

Here are a few cool rigs I have found both in this forum and online:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/bottling-station-counter-pressure-filler-339462/

here's an add on to a benchtop capper stand that makes filling mostly hands free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKg-gYRBKk8

Another capper, more automated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTedMDmR0M

The main goal would be to develop 100% hands free design that requires little movement between fill and cap so you are free to do other operations.

But in the interest of developing a better filler, please post your filler & capper rigs here.

 

[funtourist]

Here's some cool commercial examples of bottle fillers:

http://easyfillermanufacturing.com/
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Here's another inline filler rig. Seems simple enough if you replace automation with some switches: