Automated cleaning system is accurate, consistent

Automated blast cleaning system has almost become the benchmark machine for automated glass decoration as it provides an accurate, consistent and uniform finish to every component.

The Guyson Multiblast RXS 900 automated blast cleaning system has almost become the benchmark machine for automated glass decoration.

The latest one has recently been installed in the Czech Republic, a region having a long association with glass, for the Czech manufacturing subsidiary of a large German glass, plastics and printed packaging company who will be using it to decorate bottles used in the cosmetic industry.

The RXS Multiblast system has been engineered to ensure a high level of process and machine control; the RXS provides an accurate, consistent and uniform finish to every component.

By eliminating the inevitable variations in hand processing, component quality, cost control and productivity can be dramatically increased.

The rubber-lined chamber is equipped with eight Guyson model 900 blast guns fitted to fully adjustable arms and directed at the component to ensure maximum coverage effect whilst minimising wear elsewhere in the chamber.

Blasting is carried out on two spindles, which rotate in opposing directions to achieve complete coverage from two separate banks of guns, without any shadow or masked areas on any component envelope.

After blasting the bottle is air-washed in a separate chamber to clean off residual media and dust, prior to the component exiting the machine.

This recent system also included a Model CY900/24 cyclone media reclamator; material is extracted from the bottom of the cabinet using the airflow generated by the cyclone and dust collector fans.

This material includes good re-usable media, broken down media as well as material removed from the component that has been blasted.

Through cyclonic action the re-usable media is separated to the outside of the cyclone, being heavier than the rest, and is delivered back down to the media storage bin, whilst the lighter particles are entrapped in the centre air stream and pulled up through to the dust collector.

Including a cyclone separator in the machine specification not only ensures that only good reusable media is retained within the system but can also reduce consumable costs by up to 50% compared with a basic machine configuration.

The dust collector specified for this application was a Model GC16-K5 reverse jet pulse cleaning unit, which provides for continuous cleaning of the filter elements during the operation of the machine.

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