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Polytex-VB

Polytex-VB

Polytex-VB

Product catalog summary
Overview
The document describes the Automatic Swatch Card Mounting Line VB by Polytex AG, a fully automatic and autonomous unit designed for mounting swatch cards for flat samples. It features a unique 3D robot conception, minimal startup times, and no installation costs, making it suitable for small production runs. The system can handle up to 1200 swatches per hour and is compatible with various materials such as textiles, wallpapers, floorings, foils, and laminates.
Specifications
  • Card size: Up to 1000 × 350 mm
  • Swatch size: Up to 150 × 250 mm
  • Output: 1000 – 1200 swatches per hour
  • Glue application: Hotmelt, 0.1–0.2 mm spiral swirl
  • Dimensions: Length ~ 3520 mm, Width ~ 2180 mm, Height ~ 2000 mm
  • Weight: ~ 1050 kg
  • Electrical requirements: 3 × 400 V / 50 Hz
  • Compressed air requirement: 250 l/min at 6 bar
Features
  • Automatic card feeding and stacking
  • Automatic sample provision
  • Video-controlled swatch placement
  • Optional error detection with autocorrection for swatch thickness
  • Flexible magazine with magnetic swatch holders and separators
  • Manual mode for samples that cannot be separated automatically
  • Video-based swatch recognition for shape, size, and position
  • Robot-assisted swatch gluing and positioning
  • Automatic stacking of finished sample cards
Operation
The system operates by automatically feeding and stacking cards, providing samples, and applying glue. It uses a video-based system for swatch recognition and a robot for precise placement. The system includes error detection and correction features to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
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Catalog excerpts

Polytex-VB-1

Switzerland Automatic Swatch Card Mounting Line VB ■ Fully automatic and autonomous Swatch card mounting unit for flat samples ■ Absolutely new and unique 3D robot conception ■ Thanks to minimal start up times and no installation costs, perfectly suitable for any, also small production runs. ■ Up to 1200 swatches per hour ■ For all materials such as all textiles, wallpapers and floorings, foils, laminates, etc. ■ Card size up to 1000 x 350 mm ■ Swatches can be any shape or size, triangular, rectangular etc ■ Change of card layout by just computing digital parameters, simple and extremely quick, without changing expensive magazines and mechanical gluing frames ■ Gluing of the swatch by means of hotmelt glue, vertical spiral swirl ■ Easy operation Card format Swatch size Card feeding and stacking Sample provision Glue application Swatch placement Error detection optional Output Elelctrics Compressed air requirement Dimensions length width height Weight Assembling Winding Mounting Pinking Edge Fixing Gross Cut © Polytex AG, Switzerland / Subject to design changes / e - 10.18

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Polytex-VB-2

Automatic Swatch Card Mounting Line VB Magazine Standard magazine with flexible magnetic swatch holders and separators. The magazine can be loaded with all types of samples, shapes and materials Swatch recognition The video based system recognizes the outline and hence shape, size and position of the sample swatch. Manual Mode Manual feeding of samples that are sticking to each other and which cannot be separated automatically onto the synchronized conveyor belt. Error detection When the presence control sensors of the needle or vacuum gripper detect that there is no sample, the system repeats...

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