Intercaps Filling Systems:

Like all Lanfranchi products, our single-chamber air conveyor represents the apex of equipment utilized for the handling of empty plastic bottles.
All its components—bends, combiners and dividers—have been designed to ensure superlative line performance.
This level of excellence is achieved by fully exploiting the mechanical features of the air chamber through precise layout design and expert automation, combining over twenty years of experience with the most up-to-date technology.

General description

Dynamic working pressure check, train generation and checking
and ECF (Environmental Conditions Feedback) are just some of the standard design elements. An off-the-shelf air conveyor that performs
like a custom-built one: a breath of fresh air for your bottles.
Our air conveyor is accompanied by a wide range of accessories, such as automatic size change of the neck or body guides and various filtration levels from standard up to 3-stage absolute filtering.
Automation can also be enhanced through the addition of user aids such as JDS (Jam Detection System) or UMP (Ultra-clean Maintenance Procedure).

For Clean and Ultra-clean installations, a product line has been developed that may be complemented by a number of different options such as C.I.P. and absolute filtration.

Three-stage absolute filtering (gravimetric 90% class EU3 + colormetric 85% class EU9 + 99.997% photometric D.O.P. class EU13).

The Combiner: one of the components developed for the realization of complex layouts with very high level efficiences. Its compact design makes it possible to realize equipment of reduced dimensions without affecting system functionality.

Automatic body guide adjustment, already available for a number of years, has recently been supplemented by automatic neck guide adjustment. Now, switching from 28mm- to 38mm-neck bottles is as easy as pressing a button.

Automation plays a key role in good line functioning. A range of improvements now ensure high performance levels even with “difficult” bottles. The Lanfranchi VLN (Very Long Neck) patent makes it possible to work with bottles with very long necks and sloping shoulders.

The automation software has been paired with advanced-technology hardware such as profibus networks, inverters positioned directly on the motors and a wide range of field sensors.