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Table 3. — Man-hour requirements at 81 plants bottling milk vnth one machine and 

 filling less than 10,000 bottles daily. 



Type of machino. 



Plants. 



Average 

 numbor 

 of bottles 

 filled and 

 capped per 

 man-hour. 



(1) Large automatic 



(2) Rotary automatic 



(3) Single-row automatic 



(4) Machine filler and capper, operated by hand levers 



(5) Machine filler, hand cappm g 



1,039 

 788 

 733 

 511 

 461 



Fig. 9.— a battery of machine fillers and cappers of the hand-lever type. An average of 768 bottles 

 was fiUed and capped per man-hour at 21 plants using this type of machine. 



In Table 4 is shown the number of bottles filled and capped per 

 man-hour at 45 plants filling more than 10,000 bottles daily. The 

 average number of machines used per plant is also shown. 



Table 4. — Man-hour requirements for filling and capping at 45 plants filling more than 

 10,000 bottles daily, with average number of machines in u^e per plant. 



Type of machine. 





Bottles 





filled and 



Plants. 



capped 





per man 





hour. 



12 



1,238 



18 



691 



3 



764 



12 



838 



Average 

 number 

 of ma- 

 chines 

 used per 

 plant. 



(1) Large automatic 



(2) Rotary automatic 



(3) Single-row automatic 



(4) Machine filler and capper, operated by hand levers. 



1.6 

 2.7 

 4.7 

 L8 



