Case study
Pool covers
THE PROJECT
One of the world leading manufacturers of products in PVC-coated textiles, requested the development of a continuous welding and cutting machine to speed up their production of swimming pool covers.
Until then cut manually and welded with HF and impulse welding machines.
The covers are extra-large panels of bubble wrap that, once spread on the water surface, keep the heat in and the dirt out of the water.
THE PROCESS
We developed a multiple-roll sealer with conveyor belt, a first bridge with multiple welding heads and a second, travelling bridge with twin COâ‚‚ laser cutting heads.
The machine feeds the fabric from 4 motorized unwinding stations with automatic edge correction and digital fabric tension control to handle the very large rolls. The welding heads installed on the first, static tool bridge join the rolls together to create a single, very large panel.
The panel travels on a conveyor belt surface towards a second, travelling tool bridge. Following the panel, 2 laser heads simultaneously fly-cut the shapes (circles, ovals, squares and rectangles) created with a CAD program. The software is user friendly for the operator and enables the production of pool covers, which are transported via conveyor belt and then packed into cardboard boxes ready for shipment.
Reduced cycle time. Heavy duty structure and components.
With our machine, our customer increased the hourly production output multiple times.
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