champagne corkers

Winegrowers Supplies - Sparkling wine bottle corkers and wire muzzle tighteners

Semi-manual corker: PL-3 CHAMPAGNA: 2674 Euros

Four hard-polythene (Teflon) compressing jaws, strong stainless steel frame.

The corking action is 'assisted' by an air cylinder.
Pressing down on the small stainless steel lever opens the air cylinder, which enables compression of the jaws through a special mechanism and pushes the cork into the bottle.
An air compressor is required, to replenish the air cylinder; a compressor with a 50 litre tank is suggested.

For 375 ml, 500 ml, 750 ml or 1500 ml champagne bottles:
champagne cork diameter 30.5 mm, cork height up to 48 mm;
bottle diameter up to 130 mm, bottle height 260 to 370 mm.
Minimum internal bottle top diameter 17.5 mm, maximum external bottle top diameter 30 mm.
300 to 400 champagne bottles per hour are possible.

Size: 500 x 900 x 1500 mm High, weighs 25 kilos.

This model can also be used to cork normal wine bottles, with cork diameters 24 to 28 mm, and up to 50 mm high.
500 to 600 wine bottles per hour are possible.

Watch this video of it in use. In the video you can see the shape of the cork after insertion.

Champagne corks

  Notes:-
  When placing the cork in the jaws, the 'best end' of the cork should be at the bottom, that's the end that will be in contact with the wine.
  Initially the stainless steel rod will not be in the centre of the cork, because two of the jaws only move slightly, the other two jaws move inwards to compress the cork.
    The top of the cork should be at the same level as the top of white jaws', then pull down the manual handle.
    Then press the button on the left hand side to activate the pneumatic cylinder, which then closes the jaws and pushes down on the centre of the cork.

  Some photos of this:

Then to apply the wire muzzle and properly form the mushroom shape of the cork, there needs to be pressure downwards on top of the cork as the wire muzzle is tightened.

I recommend these wire muselet tighteners that press down on the cork while the muzzle is being tightened.

A semi-automatic champagne corker, EN T55: 4870 Euros

on wheeled stand:

Manual loading, electric motor operation, up to 1500 bottles/hour.
Cork diameter 31.5 mm up to 50 mm tall. Bottle height up to 375mm. 520 x 520 x 1800 mmH, weighs 110 Kilos.

380 volts 3-phase, option of 230 volts by inverter, 611 Euros

optional stainless steel hopper holding up to 500 corks, 800 Euros - this is a great advantage, it's not shown in the photo.

optional Nitrogen injection before corking, 500 Euros

A semi-automatic wire muzzler, EN GSE: 2567 Euros

optional stainless steel wheeled stand, 372 Euros

Manual loading, pneumatic operation, up to 1000 bottles/hour.
Bottle diameter up to 112 mms and height up to 375mm. 520 x 520 x 1450 mmH, weighs 50 Kilos.

Or a semi-automatic combined model:-

I-TFG/S corking and wire-muzzling 'monobloc', 10,144 Euros

Powered by electricity (230 or 380 Volts, 1200 Watts, 50/60 Hz) and compressed air.
Output: about 500 bottles/hour.
Made in stainless steel, mounted on wheels. Dimensions 90 x 65 x 180cm, weight 180 kilos.

Bottles of 0.375, 0.75 and 1.5 litres. Bottle diameter up to 112 mms and height up to 375mm.

Start of operation by pressing two buttons, with pneumatic bottle lifting by the corker.
Manual cork loading into the top of a small column hopper, corks up to 50 mm tall;
champagne corks 31.5 mm diamter or 26 to 30 mm diameter for wine corks.
option of multi-row cork charger holding 50 corks, 306 Euros extra.
Compression jaws in rectified tempered steel.
Optional pre-evacuation of the bottle, 1800 Euros extra.

Wire muzzling operation by two push-buttons, pneumatic bottle lifting and pneumatic wire-muzzle closing.
The muzzle is placed on the bottle by hand. The wire-muzzle tightening takes about 3 seconds.

Fully automatic:-

EN TPGB 400 monobloc: rotary corking and wire muzzling, at 350 to 500 bottles per hour, by one operator, 26,428 Euros

Movement by a chain system, to enable fitting of the monobloc in line with other machines.
Independent motors for corking, muzzling and the movement of the bottles.

Optional extra: Driving table and collector, 1,285 Euros

The rotary corking station can insert corks in cork or in plastic material, straight or mushroom, with diameter 23 to 30 mm and height up to 50 mm.
The bottles are fed through a star system, which makes it easy ro remove bottles in case of blockage.
The speed of rotation is adjustable by an Inverter.
There is pneumatic system of feeding the corks, with an alarm �reserve corks�.

The station that controls the distribution and closing of the muzzles, includes:-
� adjustable store of muzzles.
� adjustable pneumatic distributing pitchfork.
� Sensor for presence of a cork, to activate distribution of a muzzle.
� Magnetic star for aligning the muzzles.
� Sensor for presence of a cork, before activation of muzzle closing.

All the movements are managed by a pneumatic unit, built with Pneumax parts, it includes:
Solenoid valves, actuator rolls with regulators of flow and positioner of limit switches, reduction gear of compressed air pressure and of inert gas pressure.

The electric control board, is directly inside the machine and interfaces with the operator through a control panel at the front.
It includes Siemens PLC with LOGO TDE keyboard of command. There is a simple and intuitive user interface that shows the operator the various phases of regulation.

Prices shown are exclusive of Vat, as at August 2024.
Delivery will need to be charged at cost.