Wire drawing machines
Gimax INF-2 revolutionizes the process of packing wire into drums
The INF-2 is a new concept Pail Packer, designed by Gimax to revolutionize the process of packing wire into drums. The INF-2 is a “fully packaged system” in the sense that the only separate entity from the main body is the driven pay-off – both the dancer and the electrical control cabinet have been incorporated into the main body resulting in an enormous reduction in space occupancy (and in height) and subsequently in costs for the end user. The unit does not follow the traditional method of raising and lowering the drum during the packing process; The drum and flyer both rotate, but the INF-2 makes use of an innovative process in which the front portion of the unit itself slowly rises while the flyer is layering the wire within the drum. The entire flyer assembly is of totally new design and concept, a different philosophy to traditional methods. The pail packer can handle various drum types (round, hexagonal, octagonal) and various sizes ranging from small 100kg up to the traditional 350kg drums of MIG wire and also up to the large 500 kg drums – the unit can handle drums with or without a central core. The unit is already set up as standard with a base that can handle both round and square drums. Size changeover is really minimal, a question of several minutes to change any parts and reset parameters. The unit is equipped with wire straighteners, capstain and vibrator to settle the wire in the drum and comes complete with an operator platform which raises and lowers with the machine so that all parts of the unit are easily accessible for maintenance and for threading the wire through the system. The INF-2 can also be equipped with an optional video-cam system which allows the operator to check the inside the drum as well as other parts of the line while the unit is in operation.
