LiquidMaster Standard Features
Every standard feature on the LiquidMaster serves to achieve the following goals:
- Maximize product throughput
- Maximize machine uptime
- Minimize maintenance
- Minimize film loss
Each of the features stands on its own as a benefit, but when combined with other critical features, the above is realized year after year of continuous production.
Machine Housing
Features
- IP65 heavy-duty, non-tubular, fully welded stainless steel machine frame and housing
- Cleaned and polished continuous welds
- No open holes or exposed threads
- Stainless steel fasteners throughout machine
- Stainless steel machine feet, no exposed threads
- Pressurized machine housing
Benefits
- Sanitary design prohibits bacterial growth
- Withstands aggressive sanitation procedures
- Pressurization helps prevent water ingress
Front Plate
Features
- One-piece 20mm thick stainless steel front plate
Benefits
- Extremely strong and stable platform for mounting the forming set, vertical seal station, film draw down belts, squeeze rollers, and horizontal seal jaws
- Eliminates flexing of the front plate due to the combined weight and inertia of the above components
- Increased bearing life
- Increased shaft life
- Minimizes preventative maintenance
- Maximizes machine uptime
Electrical Cabinet
Features
- IP66 washdown execution
- Pressurized
- Offset from machine housing
- Cabling runs through offset mounts
- Sloped top
- Top overhangs doors
- Channeled door openings
- Heavy-duty chemical resistant gaskets
Benefits
- Withstands aggressive sanitation procedures
- Pressurization helps prevent water ingress
- Offset mount prohibits bacterial growth between electrical cabinet and machine housing
- Superior design with overhanging sloped top, channeled door openings, and heavy-duty chemical resistant gaskets
Overhead Product Catch Tray
Features
- Stainless steel construction, sloped, with drain
Benefits
- Protects machine, film, and printer during operation and clean-up
Powered Film Roll Unwind
Features
- Laser-controlled
- Laser reads exact position of dancer bar and sends signal to ACVFD
- ACVFD accelerates or decelerates film spindle rotation
Benefits
- Positive control of the film spindle keeps precise tension on the film
- Reduces film stress and slippage
- Reduces out of specification bags
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Film Spindle
Features
- 6” film spindle
- Cantilever design (280 machine)
- Low loading position of film roll
- Numerical scale for film roll positioning
- Film roll positioning locking collar
- Tool-less changeover
Benefits
- Fast, easy, and consistent film roll changes
- Ergonomic loading position of film roll
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Low Film Detection
Features
- IP66 sensor
- Detects when film roll is running low, a message is displayed on the HMI, and the yellow light on tower stack light is actuated
Benefits
- Alerts operator to low film supply condition
- Maximizes machine uptime
Manual Splice Table
Features
- Stainless steel execution
- If the film roll runs out, the tension on the dancer bar released, and the machine stops automatically
- The pneumatic clamping cylinders automatically fire the top clamping bar to hold the old film in place on the splice table so it does not run out through the machine
- Tape head and positioning arm for manually splicing the two film rolls
Benefits
- Fast and easy film roll changes
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Printer Frame
Features
- Stainless steel execution
- Tooless handwheel position adjustments with numerical readouts
Benefits
- No anodized aluminum
- Fast, easy, and consistent tooless changeovers
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Print Registration
Features
- IP66 photoeye
- Capable of running printed/registered film
- Tooless handwheel position adjustment with numerical readout
Benefits
- Fast, easy, and consistent tooless changeovers
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Automatic Film Tracking
Features
- IP66 infrared sensor
- The entire film feed carriage from the film roll to the forming collar moves
- Instantaneous film tracking adjustments
- Tooless position adjustment for changeovers
- Drive motor mounted inside the machine housing
Benefits
- Minimizes out of spec bags by maintaining the integrity of the vertical seal to help eliminate leakers
- Fast, easy, and consistent tooless changeovers
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Forming Set
Features
- Stainless steel execution
- 27° collar angle coming off last roller
- Tooless changeover
Benefits
- Gentle angle reduces film stress
- Gentle angle reduces film slippage
- Gentle angle increases collar life while running heavier gauge films typically found in liquid operations
- Minimizes out of spec bags by maintaining the integrity of the eye mark position when running printed film
- Fast and easy changeovers
- Less film waste
- Maximizes machine uptime
Film Drive Belts
Features
- Servo-driven vacuum-assist film drive belts
- Each belt is independently driven
- Piab vacuum pump
- Large contact surface area to film
- Automatic alignment with forming tube flats
- Tooless belt replacement
Benefits
- Precise film draw down
- Vacuum-assist is especially useful in wet environments, avoids film slippage
- Positive control of heavier gauge films typically found in liquid operations
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Vertical Seal Station
Features
- Servo-driven, direct drive
- Synchronized with the film drive belts
- Open access design with tooless release mechanism
- Tooless adjustment
- Tooless band replacement
Benefits
- Quick and easy access for changeovers, maintenance, and cleaning
- Quick and easy band replacement
- Quick, easy, and consistent adjustment during changeovers
- Minimizes film loss
- Maximizes machine uptime
Tower Stack Light
Features
- Alerts operator and surrounding personnel to machine operating status and conditions
Benefits
- Safer machine operation
- Alerts can prepare operator for upcoming conditions (i.e. low film roll supply)
- Maximizes machine uptime
eWon Module
Features
- Provides remote diagnostic capabilities
Benefits
- Helps eliminate the need for a service technician visit
- Minimizes machine downtime