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3-Piece Sport Cap Assembly System
Problem
A nationally known plastic closure manufacturing company was looking for a more efficient way to feed, orient, and assemble three piece sports caps at a high production rate.
Implementation
Shibuya Hoppmann successfully designed and built a three (3) piece sports cap assembly system that accurately places and assembles spouts and overcaps onto bases at speeds of 500+ parts per minute. This system inspects each assembled cap before proceeding downstream for further processing.
Results
Shibuya Hoppmann Corporation provided the customer with an economical sports cap assembly system that has resulted in substantial production cost savings. Combining flexibility of design, accessibility for ease of maintenance, and minimum changeover.
Process:
The sports cap assembly system consists of four (4) major elements; base cap feed system, push pull spout feed system, overcap feed system, and the continuous motion dual assembly (CMA) turret. Base caps, spouts and overcaps exit prefeeders into centrifugal feeders. The bases, spouts and overcaps are oriented diameter to diameter, and exit the feeders into an accumulation air conveyor for delivery to the dual assembly turret.
The base caps and spouts enter the first phase of the dual assembly turret via pocketed transfer wheels. In the first part of the dual assembly turret, the base is placed in the lower nest, while the spout is picked up by a pickup head and secured in place by a hanger yoke. Once the base and spouts are positioned, a dead plate beneath the spout is terminated. The pickup head lowers the spout into place on the neck of the base. The base assembly is fed into the second phase of the dual assembly turret. The base assembly is transferred into the lower nest while the overcaps enter the turret on the upper level. A vacuum head lowers picking up the overcap as the deadplate beneath it terminates. The turret cycles and the vacuum head positions the overcap over the base/spout assembly. The overcap is cammed downward snapping it into place completing the assembly.
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