CASSANI LINEAR
HANDLING, CURING AND WASHING
For medium and large production, fully automated lines for the handling of fresh and cured slabs. Freshly pressed slabs are deposited on steel trays, which are then stacked and can be taken to a curing area by forklift or dedicated robot.
When trays are returned, slabs are automatically retrieved and advanced to the finishing line.
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Tailored to your needs
We provide transport robots and curing chambers for full automation; alternatively, stacks can be handled by forklift truck.
Available as a single unit connected to both the press and the finishing line, or as two independent units for greater flexibility of plant layout.
Available with different station combinations for different operations.
Customisable self-bearing trays of variable dimension subject to customer needs and sized according to loads, based on the press, and the tile format and thickness.
SAMPLE MACHINES
LINEAR 7 STATION
Single unit
Linear 6 station
Split Units
Linear 11 station
Station variant
Engineered FOR EXCELLENT RESULTS
- 7-station line is composed by the following stations:
- Vacuum pick-up of fresh slabs from the extracting shovel of the press, rotating and laying on the tray with the sight-side facing upwards, eliminating risk of damage and warping during the curing process.
- Stacking-up of the self-bearing trays with the fresh slabs for easy transportation and storage to the curing area.
- Removal of the stacks of trays containing the fresh slabs.
- Loading of the stacks of trays containing cured slabs.
- Unstacking of the trays returned from the curing chambers.
- Vacuum pick-up of cured slabs and their transfer to the discharging path towards the finishing line.
- Moving of the empty trays to the beginning of the line.
- All vertical, horizontal and lateral movements via servo drives, thus dynamic acceleration and freely-positionable slab pick-up and handover points.
ROBUST, SAFE
AND EASY TO USE
- Lifting and lowering of the stacks of trays is carried out by means of electro-mechanic jacks.
- Galvanized steel pallets for steam treatment and vaporization in the curing chamber.
- Horizontal pallet conveyor system via frequency-controlled gear drive.
- Vertical pallet stack movements via hydraulic stroke.
- Simplicity of construction allows easy cleaning and maintainance.
- Complete with switch-and control board provided with Siemens Proface allowing operations in automatic or manual mode.
Optionals
- Wash-beton effect: direct-washing device and water pump.
- Fully automated robotic trolley for transportation of stacked trays from the depositing device to the curing chambers and back.
- Full curing chamber solutions for air curing or steam curing.
LONGINOTTI WASHBETON
Washbeton: rounded aggregates are used to create the natural pebble look. The tiles are washed in a manner to expose approximately one third of the pebble diameter. This way, two thirds of the pebble still remains embedded in the tile and will not come off even when subjected to extremely abrasive stress.
Wash-beton effect from direct washing process.
CASSANI VERTIMATIC
FOR LOWER VOLUME OR DOUBLE-LAYER PRODUCTION
Vacuum Loading Unit (2 head 400×400 version)
Automatic deposit and movement solution for smaller productions of double-layer tiles.
• Automatic collection of fresh product from the shovel of the press and depositing onto special metal pallets for curing in vertical position (on a slightly inclined plane).
• Can also operate in reverse to transfer cured slabs to the finishing line.
• Specially designed suction heads collect multiple slabs in parallel, moving independently to compensate for any differences in slab thickness.
• Integrated pallet chain for pallet transition, allowing the regular feeding of pallets for a continuous production cycle.
• Pallet feeding time based on the press production cycle time, the pallet size and the product thickness (generally 6 – 12 minutes).
• The machine can also be fitted with a unit for full pallet stacking and for empty pallet unstacking.
