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BULLETIN 973, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 3. — Man-hour requirements at 81 plants bottling mill: with one machine and 
filling less than 10,000 bottles daily. 
Type of machine. 
Average 
number 
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 capping .* 
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 filled 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. — Mart-hour requirements for filling and capping at 45 plants filling more than 
10,000 bottles daily, with average number of machhies in use per plant. 
Type of machine. 
Bottles 
filled and 
capped 
per man 
hour. 
Average 
number 
of ma- 
chines 
used per 
plant. 
(l"i Large automatic I 12 
(2) Rotary automatic IS 
(3) Single-row automatic 3 
(4) Machine filler and capper, operated by band levers 12 
1,23S 
691 
764 
838 
1.6 
2.7 
4.7 
1.8 
