Custom Solutions

We custom design bowl feeders to your product to allow the part to flow into your printing production line smoothly and efficiently.  Bowl feeders as well as other parts-handling technologies have applications in both industrial inkjet as well as pad-printing solutions.  Indeed, automated parts handling such as bowl feeders are particularly cost-effective for the long production cycles typical of pad-printing solutions to product-marking, as in such cases, parts-handling is frequently the production bottleneck.

Some applications include:

• Bottle caps
• Syringes
• Erasers
• Electric components
• Plastic parts
• Any parts that can be bowl fed

Bowl Feeder with Pad Printing:

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Bowl Feeder with Inkjet:

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Many substrates, including plastics, require pre-treatment to prepare or improve the bonding surface for ink adhesion. The pre-treatment conveyor flamer is optional equipment that can be added to a standard single pass inkjet platform or purchased as a standalone pre-treatment system.

This unit has the following features:

• Automatic product detection indexes the product and will automatically shut-off the flame when the operator/feeder stops feeding the conveyor, reducing energy consumption.
• Sensor detects flame ON and OFF as the product passes through the unit to ensure pre-treatment process application.
• Optional liquid cooled guidance rails for required applications.
• Adjustable conveyor speed for different materials and lengths of pre-treatment required.
• Operates on natural gas or propane using a single control for flame power adjustment.

The Pick and Place is a pneumatic or servo-motorized device is designed as an ancillary unit installed on conveyors for automatic loading and unloading of parts. The Pick and Place can be configured for 2, 3, 4 or more axes.