Editorial Technical Reference

Rotary bottle turntable for filling lines: 36 or 48 in unscrambling and accumulating tables, table speed up to 13 rpm, load limits and the rim speed the conveyor has to match

The round stainless table at the start or end of a small-bottle filling line that turns continuously, gathering loose bottles against a guide rail and feeding them single file onto a conveyor, or taking them off one and holding them

On small-container filling and capping lines, bottles are loaded by hand or emptied in bulk at the start, and collected for packing at the end. A rotary turntable does both jobs. At the infeed, operators dump empty bottles on the spinning top; the rotation carries them around against a guide rail until they leave single file onto the line conveyor. At the outfeed, the turntable takes filled and capped bottles off the conveyor and lets them circulate until someone packs them, so the line does not stop when packing falls behind. The table turns continuously rather than stepping from station to station; what decides whether it works is its diameter, its speed range against the conveyor, how much weight it can carry, and how the rail and the conveyor meet it.

Continuously rotating stainless turntables used to unscramble, transfer and accumulate bottles, jars and vials at the infeed and outfeed of filling, capping and labelling lines: diameter, speed range and drive, load limits, height adjustment, guide rails and the conveyor transfer. Screw-capping machines and their heads are covered on the High-speed rotary bottle capping machine page with the capping-head, spindle and chuck pages; automatic bulk unscramblers and orientors with hoppers and elevators on the Bottle unscrambler page; filler outfeed and accumulation conveyors on the Outfeed conveyor of a beverage filler page; cam indexers that step a dial from station to station on the Indexing mechanism page; single-file TableTop chain conveyors, guide rails and infeed starwheels on the Conveyor module for beverage containers, Beverage bottle conveyor guide rail and Container infeed starwheel pages.

CNFX editorial research · Sources checked October 13, 2026 · 3 sources

Pick diameter and speed Match the conveyor

Round stainless steel turntable on a cabinet base with a geared motor drive, a circular guide rail around its edge and small clear glass bottles standing on the top, connected to single-lane conveyors on either side — Stainless rotary bottle turntable with guide rail and geared drive between two conveyors

Start with your task

Pick diameter and speed36 or 48 in, up to 13 rpm. Match the conveyorRim speed at your rpm.

36 or 48 inches, up to 13 rpm, about 200 lb: what three makers publish for their turntables

Three US packaging-equipment makers publish turntable data. Eastey's TT36 and TT48 are accumulation tables with a stainless tub and an adjustable 5 in deep sidewall; Kaps-All's FS-A is an accumulating table for the end of a line; Accutek builds accumulation, transfer and unscrambling turntables with polished stainless or polyethylene tops. [1] [2] [3]

Editorial note: Eastey ties its load figure to speed (200 lb at 80 % speed), so the weight of filled bottles left circulating on an accumulation table is a design input, not just the bottle count. [1] Kaps-All states that standard containers need no changeover parts and that hazardous-location models are available. [2]

Published value	Eastey TT36 / TT48	Kaps-All FS-A	Accutek turntables
Diameter	36.0 in / 48.0 in [1]	36 in and 48 in standard; other sizes to order [2]	Diameters not listed; a 15 in transfer turntable is shown [3]
Speed	Variable, up to 13 rpm [1]	Adjustable solid-state D.C. variable-speed drive [2]	Variable-speed drive [3]
Direction	Dual direction [1]	Clockwise and counter-clockwise [2]	Reversible [3]
Load	About 200 lb maximum at 80 % speed [1]	—	—
Working height	27–37 in [1]	33–37 in [2]	Height-adjustable [3]
Power	—	110 V, 1 phase, 60 Hz, NEMA 12 [2]	110 V electric standard; all-pneumatic option at 90 psi [3]
Weight	260 lb / 340 lb [1]	450 lb crated [2]	—
Base	Powder-coated tubular steel; stainless base option for food [1]	Stainless tabletop and guide rails; stainless dumping table optional [2]	Stainless construction, adjustable feet [3]

Give bottle diameter, height and filled weight, the line speed in bottles per minute, whether the table is for infeed (unscrambling) or outfeed (accumulation), and the floor and conveyor heights.

Rim speed against the conveyor: 0.1 to 0.8 m/s at the edge of a 36–48 in table between 2 and 13 rpm

A turntable hands bottles to, or takes them from, a straight conveyor at its rim, so the speed that matters at the transfer is the rim speed, which rises with both diameter and rpm. The makers publish rpm and diameter; the rim speed follows from them. [1]

Editorial calculation: rim speed = π × diameter × rpm ÷ 60, using Eastey's 36 and 48 in diameters and its 13 rpm maximum; 2 rpm is an assumed slow setting for comparison. [1] A conveyor running slower than the rim at a discharge point backs bottles up at the rail; one running faster than the rim at an accumulation infeed pushes them on faster than the table clears them, and the variable-speed drive each maker above fits is what lets the rim speed be set to the conveyor. [2] [3]

Editorial calculation of holding capacity: a 48 in top has about 1.17 m² of area; at an assumed 50 × 50 mm footprint per bottle it holds roughly 460 bottles if completely covered, and at an assumed filled weight of 0.2 kg each that is about 93 kg (205 lb), close to Eastey's 200 lb at 80 % speed. [1] Bottle size and weight here are assumptions; heavier containers reach the load limit long before the top is full.

Table diameter	Rim speed at 2 rpm	Rim speed at 13 rpm
36 in (0.914 m)	≈ 0.10 m/s (editorial calculation)	≈ 0.62 m/s (editorial calculation) [1]
48 in (1.219 m)	≈ 0.13 m/s (editorial calculation)	≈ 0.83 m/s (editorial calculation) [1]

State the conveyor speed and width at the transfer, and ask for the table's rpm range and the rail arrangement that leads bottles on or off it.

What to send for a bottle turntable

Paste it into your enquiry below or into an email to a maker, then replace every bracket.

Use: [infeed unscrambling, transfer, or outfeed accumulation]
Containers: [type; diameter; height; filled or empty weight]
Line: [bottles per minute; conveyor height, width and speed]
Table: [diameter; rpm range; direction; top material]
Power: [110 V single phase, other, or compressed air]
Area: [food, pharmaceutical, hazardous location]

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Buyer questions

What sizes do bottle accumulation turntables come in?

Eastey and Kaps-All list 36 in and 48 in tables as standard; Kaps-All builds other sizes to order; Accutek's brochure does not list diameters. [1] [2] [3]

How fast does a bottle turntable rotate?

Eastey's TT36 and TT48 have variable speed up to 13 rpm; at that speed the rim of a 48 in table moves at about 0.83 m/s by calculation. [1]

How much weight can an accumulation table hold?

Eastey gives about 200 lb maximum at 80 % speed for its TT tables. [1]

Sources and what still needs a direct check

Sources checked 2026-10-13. Three sources: Eastey's TT Series accumulation table specifications, Kaps-All Packaging Systems' FS-A accumulation table page, and Accutek Packaging's 2023 turntables brochure.

Eastey — TT Series accumulation tables (TT36, TT48) specifications ↗ Manufacturer product page Return to text ↑
Kaps-All Packaging Systems — FS-A accumulation table ↗ Manufacturer product page Return to text ↑
Accutek Packaging Equipment — Turntables: unscrambling, transferring and accumulation tables (2023) ↗ Manufacturer brochure Return to text ↑

Still to check yourself

Size the table to bottles and rate.
Match rim speed to the conveyor.
Check load at working speed.
Confirm power and area rating.
Verify the legal supplier and factory.

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