Vertical Necking Machine (Typ: 603000)

The Vertical Necking Machine is designed to neck down balloon tubes. This process step comes prior to the balloon forming process. The target is to reduce the tube diameter beforehand in order to eliminate the calibration process after balloon forming. The tube is heated partially by a specifically designed air nozzle and the diameter is reduced by axial moving of two linear slides with different speed and travel. The final diameter of the tube can be changed by adjusting either temperature, speed, travel or relative motion of the two axis. The parameters of every product can be stored as recipe in order to achieve reproducibility.

• Up to 800 tubes per shift

• Process time 1 - 3 min

• 5-up machine

• Tube diameter 0.4 - 3.5 mm

• Pneumatically actuated clamps

• 5 independent mass flow controller 20 nl/Min

• 2 linear slides with ball srew spindle and 3Phase stepper motors 4 Nm

• Axial force 1500 N

• Travel distance max. 800 mm

• Travel speed 1 - 150 mm/s

• Process temperatures 20 - 300° C

• Heating time 0 - 30 s

• Cooling time 0 - 60s

• Up to 100 recipes

• Safety light curtain

• Programmable parameter menus are set on an alphanumerical user interface

• Actual recipe and parameter is shown an the screen

• Dimensions L x W x H = 700 x 600 x 2200 mm

• Weight 120 kg

• Power 115 / 230 VAC

• Air pressure 6 - 10 bar (87 - 145 psi)