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34 Wire & Cable ASIA – November/December 2014
Technologynews
The INF-2 is a new concept pail packer, designed by Gimax,
for the process of packing wire into drums.
The INF-2 is a ‘fully packaged system’ in the sense that the
only separate entity from the main body is the driven pay-off
– both the dancer and the electrical control cabinet have
been incorporated into the main body resulting in a
reduction in space occupancy (and height), and
subsequently in costs for the end user.
The unit does not follow the traditional method of raising
and lowering the drum during the packing process. The
drum and flyer both rotate, but the INF-2 makes use of an
innovative process in which the front portion of the unit itself
slowly rises while the flyer is layering the wire within the
drum. The entire flyer assembly is of a totally new design
and concept, a different philosophy to traditional methods.
The pail packer can handle various drum types (round,
hexagonal, octagonal) and various sizes ranging from small
100kg up to the traditional 350kg drums of MIG wire, and
also up to the large 500kg drums as the unit can handle
drums with or without a central core. The unit is set up as
standard with a base that can handle both round and square
drums. Size changeover is minimal.
The unit is equipped with wire straighteners, capstan and
vibrator to settle the wire in the drum, and comes complete
with an operator platform which raises and lowers with the
machine so that all parts of the unit are easily accessible
for maintenance and for threading the wire through the
system.
The INF-2 can also be equipped with an optional video-cam
system that allows the operator to check the inside of the
drum as well as other parts of the line while the unit is in
operation.
Gimax Srl – Italy
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New concept for packing wire into drums
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