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• Electro-mechanical gauging tion, slightly inclined, with detect the temperature in those
heads system to detect the total V-shaped attachments support- areas.
length of the vial and/or the ing the vial neck. The loading and unloading
concavity of the bottom; The channel trays are designed systems at the lehr inlet and outlet
• Servo-motor driven silk screen to cover the product size range, are equipped with servo-driven
printing station; thus avoiding the need for motors with self-teaching func-
• Optical sensor to measure bot- changeover. tions to provide easy changeover
tom thickness and concavity. Thanks to a controlled heating from one size to another.
and cooling process, the anneal- The annealing lehr, if required,
ANNEALING LEHRS ing lehr allows the perfect release can also integrate:
Annealing lehrs can be electri- of residual stress of the glass • sampling stations at the lehr
cal or gas heated. products. inlet and outlet to collect sam-
Euromatic lehrs are designed The annealing curve perfect- ples of containers during pro-
with special features that guar- ly represents the heating time duction without stopping the
antee homogenous temperature required to reach the above equipment;
distribution inside the chamber annealing point temperature and • visual camera inspection sys-
through the different product to be kept constant for a defined tem for print inspection.
lanes/rows. period of time. Following this,
The products are positioned the atoms have the possibility to AUTOMATIC PACKING
on a corrugated mesh belt carrier rearrange themselves. MACHINE
system made of transversal flight The annealing lehr has been The automatic packing
channels to allow the products developed with thermocouples machine is CE compliant as
to be placed in horizontal posi- installed in specific positions to standard. The glass products are

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