Linear indexed

Example: Centrifugal Tube printing and capping

This system is built around a steel lacquered frame.
The control cabinet is mounted sideways. The HMI consists of an IPC with an integrated display (Windows) mounted to the cabinet. Production data is collected and can be exported to an MIS system. The hart of the machine is the AAE/Grauel LCS, driven by an indexing servo motor. The LCS contains 41 Product holders, that open and close over a cam system. Workstations are positioned on both sides of the LCS.

The tubes are fed by a bunker elevator, two vibrator bowls and a dual lane linear feeder. At the and of the linear track a separation station with mandrill loads the tubes onto the product holder. Subsequently the screw caps are fed over a bunker elevator, 2 bowl feeders and a dual lane linear feeder.
A separation station places the caps on the tubes. With help of a dual-lane AAE/Grauel screwing unit the caps are mounted on the tubes with adjustable torque. Then they are pre-treated with corona, printed with a AAE/Grauel 2-color print head, type RBA-90-100-2F and UV-cured. Finally the tubes are expelled and transported to a bagging system. Gross output of the machine is 120 tubes per minute.