Kalpak Texture Testers

For Food, Food pack aging, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics texture testing

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Kalpak Texture Testers are designed for growing testing needs of Indian Food Processing and packaging as well as
Pharma and Cosmetic industries. It offers a obje ctive testing system providing accurate and repeatable test results and
analysis. Various Departments in any food processing company like Production, Research and Development, Quality
Assurance, can use Kalpak Texture Testers to maintain objective standard s for their products as well as ingredients
and packing materials.
Kalpak Texture Testers can measure parameters like:
Compression strength Rupture strength Extensibility
Tensile strength Chewiness Swelling/absorption
Bloom strength Spreadability Force retention
Resilience Cohesivene ss Tackiness
Springiness Fracturability
Breaking point
Adhesiveness And many Others…
Kalpak Computerised Texture Tester Kalpak Electronic Texture Tester
KTT -1 -xxx -C KTT -1 -xxx

Benefits of Kalpak Texture Testers:

Provides objective measure of Customer Acceptable Kalpak Texture Test software enables Online/off line
Product Quality parameters. Data Acquisition and analysis, and are PC Comaptible.
Provides process control feedback. Parameter programming as per user requirements.
Accurate and Repeatable measurement of force, Shorter Product Development and qualification cycle
Displacement and time. times.
Features:
Kalpak Texture Testers use state of the Art Micro Controller based systems and offer user -friendly texture test system
designed and manufactured to provide long-term reliability and accuracy. The test results can be Viewed , Stored as
well as Analysed on PC using Kalpak’s Kalpak Textur e Test Software and further related to product attributes
desired by the user such as freshness, Crispness etc. and interpreted by the industry specialists .
Range Up to 100 Kg force measurement.
Choice of Models 4 Models with capacities of 5kg, 20 Kg, 50Kg, 100Kg
Versions Fully Computerised/ Electronic with PC Compatibility.
Main Operating Test Modes Tensile/Compression/
Optional Operating Modes Peel, Flexure, Shear, puncture, bend etc as per application
Group Testing Enables User to program for 10 different types and select the group as per
product type under test
Safety Emergency Stop, Over Travel Protection, Overload Protection
Display Type 20x4 character LCD Display
Parameters Displayed Simultaneous Display of Force, Test Speed, Distance
Data Output Ports RS 232 for PC communication, Parallel port for Printer
Accessories Customised Accessories offered include Chip fixture, Ball Probes, Cone
probes, Cylinder Probes, Compression Plates, Knife blades, Kramer Shear
Cell, Forward and Back extrusion rigs, Self tightening Grips, Peel, Fixtures,
Sled Fixtures, Three Point bend Rig.
 Range of Applications:
Industry Typical Applications
Bakery and Cereals Extrusion of Roti/ Bread/ Pizza dough, Crispness and snap testing of Biscuits, Snack
Products, Te sting of Bread, Cereal and Pasta, Roti, Spaghetti.
Confectionary Crispness and snap testing of chocolates.
Dairy Consistency , Spreadability, Adhesiveness nd firmness testing of Cheese, Butter and
margarine
Fruits and fruit and vegetable firm ness, Puncture and Penetration, Crispness and snap testing,
Vegetables Compression testing of fruit and vegetables using Back Extrusion fixture.
Gels Puncture & Rupture Force of Liquid Soft Gel Caps , Disintegration of Tablets , Adhesiveness
of Coating to Tablet Stickiness of Creams & Ointments , Suppositories , Film Resistance &
Burst Strength , Silicon Gels
Food Ingredients To Study and forecast impact of Ingredients on Textural properties of Food product .
Pasta and Noodles Firmness of all forms of pasta and Asia n noodles, Strength of uncooked pasta, Stickiness of
pasta , Tensile strength and cohesive strength of pasta, Flexibility and extensibility of pasta,
Extrudeability of uncooked pasta mix, Springiness, cohesiveness and resilience of pasta
products and noodl es.
Pet Foods firmness and disintegration behavior of fish food flakes, Cohesiveness of dog foods,
Crunchiness of cat Food, Breaking Strength of biscuits, Hardness of synthetic dog bones.
Snacks Crunchiness, Crispness, Brittleness, Fracturability, Shelf Life, Packaging Effectiveness.
Food Packaging Tensile testing, Tube Extrusion, Blister Pack Testing, 90 and 180 Degree Peel Testing, Film
strength and Flexibility Testing.
Adhesives Adhesive Bandages, Tapes, Tablet Coating, Silicon Gels, Cream and Ointm ent stickiness,
Spread ability, Film Resistance and Burst strength, Pressure sensitive adhesives used for
masking, Packaging and Office Tapes, Peel and Sheer Tests of Tapes, Tooth Paste TPA.
Pharmaceuticals Tablet Hardness , Adhesiveness of Coating to Tabl et, Stickiness of Creams & Ointments ,
Cracking Tablets , S uppositories , Film Resistance & Burst Strength , Silicon Gels , Cohesion of
Lotions, Pastes & Gels , Trans dermal Adhesives .
Cosmetics Face Powders, Deodorant, Gel Capsules, Hair Gel, Lip Stick, Moistu rising Cream, Petroleum
Jelly, Shampoo, Soap, Tablet, Tablet Granules, Tooth Paste, Wax.

Specifications:
Parameter/Model KTT -5 KTT -20 KTT -50 KTT -100 KTT - KTT -1-20- KTT - KTT -
1-5-C C 50-C 100 -C
Load Cell Capacity 5Kg 20 Kg 50 Kg 100 Kg 5Kg 20 Kg 50 Kg 100 K g
Force Range 0-5 kg 20 Kg 50 Kg 100 Kg 0-5 kg 20 Kg 50 Kg 100 Kg
Force Resolution 1gm 10 gm 10 gm 100 gm 0.1gm 1gm 5 gm 10 gm
Force Accuracy 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%

PC Optional as per Configuration below. Included as per PC Configurat ion below

Size (in mm) 800 X 500 X 500 mm 800 X 500 X 500 mm
Weight in Kg 55 Kg 55 Kg
Position Range 0.1- 295 mm (or 550 mm Extended Range) 0.01 - 295 mm (or 550 mm Extended Range)
Range resolution 0.1mm 0.01mm
Speed Range 0.01 - 40 mm/second 0.01 - 40 mm/second
Speed Accuracy Better than 0.1% Better than 0.1%
PC Configuration Pentium 4with minimum configuration of 2.4GHz with one 40GB HDD, 1 CD -Drive, 1 FDD,
one 15’’ SVGA monitor,2 PCI slots, 2 USB Ports, 1 Com Port , 1 Printer port, 1 Key Board ,
mouse with WINDOWS 98 preinstalled, 500 VA UPS
PC and Printer Interface to PC through a standard RS232 Built in.
Interface serial port , Printer Interface through Parallel
Port.
Data Acquisition Rate Up to 50 points per second ( pps) Up to 500 points per second (pps)
Kalpak Texture Test Online/off line Data Acquisition and analysis involving complicated calculations using
Software Windows based Kalpak Texture Test Software. Presentation of Test Data, Test Report in
user -defined formats with facility for Graphical and Multi Graph Comparison analysis.
Power Supply 230 VAC ,50 Hz.

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