AMERICAN PILLOW MACHINE COMPANY, LLC

Pillow systems come in all shapes and sizes. Blowing lines can use a single nozzle, double nozzles, or up to six nozzles. Garnetted pillow lines can have a single stuffer or double stuffers.

Production rates largely depend on the size pillow or tick being blown or stuffed. A system blowing small decorative pillows will have a lower production rate per nozzle than a system blowing bed pillows. Bed pillow production per nozzle may even be less than furniture back production. These differences occur because of the lag time between taking one tick off of the nozzle and putting the next tick on the nozzle and pressing the foot switch. Smaller decorative pillows will fill faster than larger pillows, but there will be a higher ratio of time between pillows than when blowing a larger tick.

Of course other factors are involved in calculating production rates. Maintenance time, clean up, breaks, product style (pillow size) switches, type of fiber and degree of opening required, and experience of the operator all contribute to the overall production rate that can be expected from a pillow system.

With all of these factors considered we offer some figures that we have experienced in the field over many years with our machinery.

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