News: 28/04/2003

High pressure casting cell for solid cast tanks and lids.

Our company has recently presented the AP-TL1 application package, the brand new high casting cell that can handle a production of 1100 solid cast tanks and 1100 lids, which means about 530.000 pieces/year on a basis of 250 days of work.
This unit, which has already been put on the market, is made of two high-pressure casting units with a mould frame (usable area of 1800x1570mm), that can handle a double mould with 4 cavities each, so that it can produce also different models contemporaneously.
To render the production process completely automatized, the two high casting cells are helped by a robot that:
- demoulds 4 pieces at the same time by means of a 4-imprint tool specifically for each model;
- hole punches the tanks laterally by means of a toll with pneumatic device;
- punches the tanks on their bottom with a double-diameter tool;
This same demoulding robot deposits the pieces on a plate conveyor belt that transports them to the robotized fettling area.
The length of the conveyor belt allows the pieces to reach a first degree of pre-drying, so that fettling operations can be made easily.
At the end of the conveyor belt, a second robot performs the following operations:
- fettling of the tanks and lids top borders;
- hole sponging;
- automatic loading of the pieces on transport boxes (or a trolley, or directly on a continuous dryer) to transport them to the dryer.
Garoll Srl, with the AP-TL1 Application Package, confirms its tradition as the leader in sanitaryware market process automation.

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