Product category:
Adhesives and adhesive bonding equipment
News Release from: Sealant Equipment and Engineering | Subject: Program-A-Swirl
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2002
Program dispenses circular or bead
patterns
A robot can dispense adhesives or sealants in a circular pattern or as a continuous bead to maximise adhesion.
Sealant Equipment and Engineering's new, patent-pending Program-A-Swirl is designed to dispense adhesives or sealants in a circular pattern or as a continuous bead By dispensing in a swirled pattern of closed loops, the Program-A-Swirl maximizes adhesion between two substrates and uses less material to 'wet out' a greater area
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Programmable system dispenses swirl patterns
Programmable system dispenses adhesives or sealants in a circular swirling pattern or as a continuous bead and uses less material to 'wet out' a greater area.
Swirling is achieved when the servo motor spins the system's nozzle.
When the servo motor stops, the nozzle "self-centres," allowing the tool to alternate on-the-fly between swirling patterns and dispensing beads.
The versatile Program-A-Swirl system is available in two styles.
One can be used with a static mixer nozzle for two-component, reactive-resin materials.
The other version is designed to dispense single-component materials.
Program-A-Swirl is typically mounted as an end-of-arm tool in robotic applications, or fixture-mounted in automation tooling.
Program-A-Swirl's dispensing patterns will meet the geometry of virtually any application requirement, precisely adjusting the size of the looped pattern or bead.
Sealant Equipment manufactures more than 800 models of dispense valves and is a leading manufacturer of precision meter/mix/dispense equipment.
The company is ISO-9001 certified.
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