Lanfranchi’s range of products for the handling of empty plastic bottles also includes belt vacuum units, made for conveying bottles that cannot be handled with air conveyor belts.
Its main structural plus features are:
- Main structure of conveyor belt made of stainless steel
- Stainless steel vacuum chamber separated from the conveyor belt frame to guarantee a better vacuum level along the whole length of the conveyor
- Connections between vacuum chamber and conveyor fitted with butterfly valves so that the vacuum level in the bottle collection tracts can be adjusted
- Ventilator for vacuum generation fitted inside an insulated and sound-proofed steel casing
- Upper covering of conveyor belt available in several versions.
The belt vacuum units are completed with a wide range of accessories with which it is possible, for example, to obtain divisions from one to several rows or to increase the cleanliness features of the conveyor.
For this type of conveyor too, automation has been greatly refined so that, for example, the vacuum levels can be set and checked according to the different sizes to be processed.
Both the conveyor belt frame and the vacuum chamber underneath are made of stainless steel.
Various types of conveyor belt covering are available: from the upper dust cover to a complete casing.
The suction fan is fitted inside a sound-proofed steel casing.
By using the butterfly valves inserted in the connections between vacuum chamber and conveyor belt, zones with different vacuum levels can be defined, such as in the collection tracts, for example.
All the components of the table-top conveyor belts, such as the alongside conveyor sections, the bends and the separators, are also available for the belt vacuum units.
The chains of the conveyor vacuum unit are perforated according to the type of bottle to be used.
The Engineering Department is entrusted with the design and construction of complex plants: dedicated design for highly efficient lines in compliance with customer specifications.
