HEPTA The HEPTA is an economical, high-speed tufting machine for toothbrushes. Its filling tool is completely new and redesigned, with an absolute minimum number of parts and adjustments. This allows maintenance to be minimized and setup to be quick. All movements are controlled by means of servomotors. The touchscreen interface is easy to use with clear messages, and the controller can hold plenty of different programs. As a standard, the machine is equipped with a triple-fiber box, so that brushes with three different types of filaments can be made. The HEPTA is available as a manually loaded machine or with a simple automatic handle feeder to reduce labor around the machine.
High Production Flexi Lines With the introduction of the Flexi line concept, Boucherie has taken one more step ahead of the competition. The Flexi machines are built up in modules that are connected with a pallet-style transport system. There can be a number of tufting machines, depending on the product and the output that is required. There are machines with 2 HEPTA tufting machines integrated, giving up to 2000 tufts per minute, but some machines have been built with 3, 4 and even 5 tufting units. The modular design of the machine has many advantages: first, the tufting machines can have several axes of movement, such as CNC controlled tuft picker opening, CNC controlled depth movement, CNC controlled anchor insertion angle, etc. This makes it possible to tuft the most exotic designs. However, the machine remains perfectly accessible. On top of that, the side-by side placement of tufting modules allows for a single fiber loading system to keep the fiberboxes topped up, which means there is a substantial savings both in investment as well as floor space. Furthermore, the transport system can be shaped in such a way that the layout of the machine fits the available space on the factory floor, and that the throughput of raw materials and finished products is optimal.
ORAL CARE
PTt Technology PTt technology provides the new way to produce anchorless toothbrushes, offering extremely important benefits pertaining to manufacturing, design and quality. The new technology simplifies the manufacturing process, allowing the use of conventional standard toothbrush handles with pre-cored holes. This means only the mold and only one handle component to process. There is no welding, no clicking and no assembly. The output can reach up to 48 brushes per minute. Furthermore, PTt enables entirely new toothbrush designs to be made, due to the very narrow space between the tufts and the edge of the head, allowing the possibility to use TPE (rubber) cleaning elements and a wide range of handle materials, including transparent materials. The product quality advantages are convincing. This includes excellent and consistent tuft retention, and no voids in the head. Also, all bristles of the same type are end-rounded in the same condition, so that all bristles tips will later show an identical end-rounding quality, no matter where they are inserted in the brush. The PTt technology won the Innovation Award at the 58th FEIBP Congress, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
PERSONAL CARE BRUSHES
DMU: Efficient, Simple, And Flexible The DMU-1 machine is aimed at manufacturers of smaller quantities of high-quality brushes and “fine brushware,� such as hairbrushes and other personal brushes. This machine has a short-stroke filling tool and a high-precision picking system. High quality small brushware of the most various configurations can be manufactured with high efficiency: round, half-round and flat hairbrushes, rubber pads, bath brushes and single or double sided nailbrushes. In its basic configuration, this is the most versatile and practical machine possible for this segment of the market, and some automation is also available for longer runs. IDM IDM is a compact, high output machine for the production of small, twisted-in-wire brushes, such as mascara brushes. There are variants available with spool feed as well as with puck feed of the bristles.
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DMU: High accuracy for high-quality brushes and fine brushware.
BBM MAGAZINE | September/October 2020