Sheet Feeding Machine: KAPPA II

How KAPPA III Is Functioning

1. The a/m system operates in such a way that the sheet piles are placed on to a roller track (with driven rolls) and transported to the stop point below the sheet separation and transport unit.
2. There the sheets are separated, lifted and than transported (hanging on magnetic belt conveyors)
3. After the sheet has been placed on the feeding table it is precisely aligned acc. To the printing marks, gripped by one feeding slide and transported horizontally in feeding steps through the die for blanking and drawing the shells.
4. To enable sheet processing the waste strip (net strip) is separated (cut) from the sheet and ejected to the side while the shells are ejected to the rear as usually.
5. While the first slide is in the working area the second slide takes the next sheet from the lay-on table and follows the first (which turns to the starting point after finishing the first double row) and feeds the second sheet through the die room.
6. Than the first follows again doing the second double row. That means the two slides are working in alternating sequence.
7. When the first sheet has been nearly finished the last double row is taken over by the grippers of the horizontal feeding slide and fed in steps through the die room as usually done by strip feeding.
   
   Of course there is also an alternative version. You can even work with two roller tracks. In this case no stop would be necessary at all while the new pile will be placed and positioned.
8. Change over from one cap size to the other is done by exchanging the die, sitting the sheet alignment marks and selecting the other programmed in the soft ware.

Advantages of the Sheet Feeding System to C-Frame Crank Presses KAPPA III

• no scroll shear is needed anymore, thus no additional man power and electricity
  
• no scroll tooling is needed anymore, thus no sharpening, replacement or scroll tool change
  
• no manual transport of the strips to the magazine of the strip feed press.
  
• very fast and easy change over from one end shape or size or sheet layout to another one, asjust the press die has to be exchanged and the new programmed has to be chosen due to the CNC controlled system

Therefore the KAPPA System is particularly economical if the end sizes and sheet layouts must be changed quite often.