Modular in construction and web fed, they could be configured for a variety of uses. New Era provided them for use as label and tag presses, ticket presses, container presses and a host of other uses, as well as milkcap presses. Good thing we have a lathe, mill and an overhead crane in our shop. We put them all to good use. The type is held in a chase in each unit that articulates over the web as the web progresses down the processing line.
Chains move the inking rollers in a circular path around the chase and articulating printing frame.
The web then progresses on to the stitching head which stitches either two or six caps at once. Then there is the feed head which pulls the web through the machine and pushes the web into the die head which cuts the thumb tab and pickout into the cap and then cuts the cap out of the web. The caps are then poked out of the web where they fall through the waxer which fully coats the cap with a nearly invisible protective wax coating. They are then counted and packed for shipping. The machine has several modes that it can be run in depending on the width of web being used and the quantities desired.