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Applications :

The empty tubes are first loaded in the cassette, which then travels through the guides to be held in the feeder by vacuum. The tube is then fed into the tube holder by the feeder. The tube holders are fitted on the circular turret which intermittently takes the tube to all the stations.
The tube then passes through the centering station which presses the tube from top and lodges it into the tube holder. It then travels to the orientation station for positioning the ‘I’ mark. Here the tube is lifted and revolved. The moment the ‘I’ mark comes in front of the scanner, the tube stops revolving and comes down. It is then carried to the filling station where the dosing action of the piston in the cylinder forces out the required volume of material through the hose pipe onto the suck back device and then from the nozzle into the tube. The tube then travels through the individual pressing, crimping and coding stations after which it is ejected out at the ejecting station.
In case of lami/plastic tubes, after the filling station, the tube travels to the hot air blowing station where hot air is blown onto the inside of the end of the tube by a nozzle having holes on its periphery. The tube then goes to the sealing station where the tube is pressed and sealed. It then travels to the dual coding & trimming station where the tube is first coded with metal stereos on the seal and the irregular shape at the tube end is trimmed by a set of blades. It is then ejected out at the next station.

Striking Features :

The strongest point of SJ Series of machines is its pump head dosing mechanism. This is a compact design with bearings fitted to avoid rubbing of the ointment dosing valve and the outer sleeve in which it is placed. Seals are provided on both sides of the valve to avoid leakage of the ointment.The piston is made of teflon & the cylinder of s.s.316. The advantage in having dual material is less wear & tear, accurate filling & cGMP standards.
The Geneva mechanism which is the indexing system of the machines is absolutely positive and trouble-free.
One of the most striking features of the machines is the suckback device, which is provided at the ointment filling station. This device cuts the rat-tail of ointment, formed during filling, without any spurting of the ointment, as is the case with its blow-off counter part. To add to it is the special shut-off nozzle which can be fitted for filling viscous syrups besides ointment, creams and gels.
Changeover is effected quickly with a minimum of change parts due to the rotary nature of the machine

Check Devices & Safety Fetures :

No tube - No fill device which makes sure that filling does not take place if tube is not present at the filling station. At the orientation station, when the tube is lifted, its presence is checked by a sensor and this signal is relayed to the filling station. Hence if a tube is not there, the dosing action does not take place and hence there is no fill.
If the tube is not ejected out by the ejector, the machine stops in order to avoid damages.
In case of any jamming on the indexing system, to avoid breakages, the load is sensed by the variable drive through the PLC & the machine stops automatically.

Options

Elevator type cassette feed device which has a holding capacity of upto 10,000 tubes of 1/2" tube diameter. This cassette is located on the floor and it feeds tubes automatically to the infeed device.
Tube cleaning device for cleaning the tube wherein compressed air is first pumped in and the unsettled dust is sucked out by suction and collected in an extractor. This device is located before the infeed device on the tube guides.
A jacketed hopper for heating the ointment in case of jelly/wax like behaviour of ointment.
Stirring device to stir the ointment for easy flow from the hopper to the dosing valve.
A third crimping station if a third crimp or the rocket type fold is required.
If the SJ 80 or SJ 150 is subsequently linked with our Cartonator SJ 180 with the help of our Link-up mechanism, an extra ejector can be attached after the main ejector. During the down time of the cartonator, the main ejector stops functioning & the tube travels to the extra ejector where it is ejected and collected. The tubes can then be fed manually on our cartonator, even when both the machines are on because the SJ 180 is usually set to run at a speed which is 15% higher than the filling machine. Hence, there is no wastage of time nor break in production.

CHANGE-OVER
The rotary turret of the machine ensures that individual stations need not be set separately. The turret can be lowered or raised according to the tube length. For change in diameter of the tube, very few parts like tube holder, tube guides, feeder, divider etc. are to be changed. For major changes in volumes, the piston & cylinder set has to be changed which is also effected very fast. All in all, due to the chunk of the change-over being taken care by the turret, the total change-over should not take more than 30 minutes.

Technical Specification

SJ 80
OUTPUT	Upto 80 tubes/min.(depending upon weight being filled)
UTILITIES
Power	2 Kw (In case of aluminium tubes) 5 Kw (In case of lami/plastic tubes)
Compressed Air	1.8 cfm at 6 kg/cm2 (In case of aluminium tubes) 4.0 cfm at 6 kg/cm2 (In case of lami/plastic tubes)
FILLING RANGE	3 gms. to 200 gms.
MAX . TUBE DIAMETER	48 mm
DIMENSIONS OF MACHINE
Length	1980 mm (6' 6")
Width	1675 mm (5' 6")
Height (with stirrer)	2630 mm (8' 7.5)
OPERATORS/ATTENDANTS	1
NET WEIGHT	1200 kgs. (approx.)

SJ 150
OUTPUT	Upto 150 tubes/min.
UTILITIES
Power	2.8 Kw (In case of aluminium tubes) 6 Kw (In case of lami/plastic tubes)
Compressed Air	2.4 cfm at 6 kg/cm2 (In case of aluminium tubes) 4.5 cfm at 6 kg/cm2 (In case of lami/plastic tubes)
FILLING RANGE	3 gms. to 200 gms.
MAX . TUBE DIAMETER	48 mm
DIMENSIONS OF MACHINE
Length	2230 mm (7' 3.8)
Width	1670 mm (5' 5.7)
Height (with stirrer)	3350 mm (11')
OPERATORS/ATTENDANTS	1
NET WEIGHT	1800 kgs. (approx.)