Cannon smart response to high-level automotive industry needs: single station thermoforming machine producing car interior trims with vacuum forming or thermocovering techniques, with turning table concept.
Key Aspects
- Fast cycle time due to double mold, one in forming area, one in operator area
- Easy manual operations with mold accessibility on 3 sides
- Forming and pre-cutting in the same station
- Automatic reel feeding with devices for junction
Feeding System
- Reel frame carrying two coils of material
- Manual junction between finishing reel and new one
- Curved aluminum chute to prevent the material fromtouching the floor
- Motorised gripping system to unroll, lay and tension the material
- Transverse cutter on the clamp frame
Heating and Process Control
- Two heating banks of quartz lamps, several half-sized, individually controlled
- PLC and operative panel: optimized heating process with a closed-loop temperature control
- Automatic retraction of lower heater in case of emergency
- Heating and cooling pyrometers
- Proportional valve for slow vacuum and automatic bubble and sheet sag control
Forming and De Moulding Devices
- Rotating closing gate with double mold table: forming on one mold and manual de-molding on the other at the same time
- Completely dedicated and changeable aperture plate and clamp frame
- Shuttling upper platen: plug assist against wrinkles and set of blades for cutting
- Completely servo-electric movements with rack and pinion systems
- Dedicated auto-centring reduction plates for the molds
- Mold model identification
