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Title: Mechanical Design Engineering at CHL Systems
Description: Twenty custom equipment projects across eight industries in three years, designed alongside the shop that built them.

Industry: Food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural processing
Dwg no.: PS-2026-500
Year: 2018

Title: Adjustable Chub Clamping System
Description: A continuously adjustable, dial-set clamp retrofit that let a single-product meat line run several chub diameters.

Industry: Raw meat
Dwg no.: PS-2026-504
Year: 2018

Title: Bag Singulation and Pacing Conveyance
Description: Merging two lanes of filled pet food bags into one evenly spaced stream for a check-weigher and X-ray, using only belt speeds.

Industry: Pet food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-517
Year: 2020

Title: Bottle Conveyance Line
Description: A pharmaceutical bottle line with pivoting sections to keep the plant passable and formed Lexan covers to keep open bottles clean.

Industry: Pharmaceutical
Dwg no.: PS-2026-518
Year: 2020

Title: Chip Processing Line Relocation
Description: Turning a chip line move into a redesign, with a divert chute that lets any line feed either type of slicer.

Industry: Snack food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-520
Year: 2021

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Title: Chocolate Bar Case Unloading Concept
Description: A quoted concept that inverts full cases of chocolate bars and releases them onto a chute, instead of picking bars out one at a time.

Industry: Confectionery
Dwg no.: PS-2026-515
Year: 2019

Title: Chocolate Pump and Separator Skid
Description: A self-contained, jacketed skid on casters that screens unrefined grains out of warm chocolate.

Industry: Snack food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-507
Year: 2018

Title: Confectionery Pilot Line Conveyor
Description: A nearly hundred foot marshmallow pilot line conveyor with depositors and a sugar bed, designed into a space still under construction.

Industry: Confectionery
Dwg no.: PS-2026-512
Year: 2019

Title: Cooker and Chiller Discharge Conveyors
Description: Two pet food transfer conveyors that pin into either of two configurations and strip down quickly for washdown.

Industry: Pet food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-516
Year: 2020

Title: Corn Conveyance and Distribution System
Description: An overhead conveyor loop that carries corn over a full plant floor and drops it to sixteen stations below.

Industry: Agriculture
Dwg no.: PS-2026-508
Year: 2018

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Title: Dumper Guarding Safety Upgrade
Description: Three layers of safeguarding, including a mechanical locking pin, around a nearly one ton hydraulic dumper in a raw meat plant.

Industry: Raw meat
Dwg no.: PS-2026-501
Year: 2018

Title: Fat Percentage Blending System
Description: A ground beef line that recirculates fat-rich trim and blends two streams to run just under the regulated fat limit.

Industry: Raw meat
Dwg no.: PS-2026-514
Year: 2019

Title: Frozen Block Separator
Description: A hydraulic machine that replaced a jackhammer job nobody could keep staffed, and went on to become a standard CHL product.

Industry: Pet food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-505
Year: 2018

Title: Incline Meat Auger Conveyor
Description: An inclined screw conveyor chosen over a belt because raw meat slides back down steep belts and screws are easier to clean.

Industry: Raw meat
Dwg no.: PS-2026-510
Year: 2019

Title: Induction Sealer Line Integration
Description: Adding rotary accumulation around an existing corner of a pharmaceutical line so short stoppages stop shutting down the whole line.

Industry: Pharmaceutical
Dwg no.: PS-2026-513
Year: 2019

Title: Medical Device Sterilizing Line
Description: A thirteen-station heavy pallet line through explosive-atmosphere sterilizing chambers, which I took over mid-project and commissioned.

Industry: Medical devices
Dwg no.: PS-2026-502
Year: 2018

Title: Pharmaceutical Bottle Lifter
Description: A sanitary clamp and lift bar that let a machine lift heavy, awkward bottles of liquid so operators no longer had to.

Industry: Pharmaceutical
Dwg no.: PS-2026-509
Year: 2018

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Title: Rail Car Fall Protection Upgrade
Description: An engineered 54 foot horizontal lifeline over a rail car cleaning area, replacing a safety line nobody could vouch for.

Industry: Snack food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-506
Year: 2018

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Title: Scale and Bagger Loader Platform
Description: An elevated, bolt-together platform for a multihead weigher, designed to fit through the building's doorway in pieces.

Industry: Snack food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-511
Year: 2019

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Title: Steam Cooker Outfeed Slicer
Description: A four-bar linkage guard that folds out of the way so a 150 lb knife assembly can be lifted safely for sharpening.

Industry: Pet food
Dwg no.: PS-2026-503
Year: 2018

Title: Yogurt Tub Conveyance System
Description: Dairy conveyance with a fail-safe roller gate that lifts on a fire alarm so the fire door can close.

Industry: Dairy
Dwg no.: PS-2026-519
Year: 2020