Kolbus case maker DA 370 (2023)

Case maker

Kolbus DA 370

Year: 2023

New generation of casemaker for faster production and shorter make-ready times.

Automatic production of book cases, files, display cards, calendar backs or game boards, at rates of up to 65 cycles/min.

Maximum production and process reliability in the manufacture of book cases. The DA 370 casemaker is a versatile machine for a wide range of applications. The machine with its non-stop case feeder is engineered to be ergonomic and extremely operator-friendly so that it can be easily operated by one person.

Configuration:

- Copilot system with touchscreen

- sectional touch panel for direct operation

- large display for showing the speed and malfunction messages

- board prestacking conveyor to automatically reload the magazines (stream cover and stack feeder)

- counter-stacker delivery with roller conveyor delivery incl. table

- cloth feeder for non-stop operation with stack magazine

- missing product check during separation of cloth and cardboard

- cloth cylinder with grippers and interchangeable plates for rubber pads (5 plates 500 mm wide and 5 plates 720 mm wide, incl. 10 rubber pads)

- cardboard centre strip magazine

- device used to prepare centre strip roll

- centre strip waste chopper

- centre strip rub-down unit (head and foot)

- rub-down unit used to bond the covering material to cardboards and spine strip without creases

- extendable gluing station for processing hot glue with glue preparation in the premelter, heated glue roller and scraper roller

- viscosity control unit for an automatic supply of water via a water container with a pump

- device for padded cases

- function used to request individual cases for monitoring purposes on the operating side

- servo-controlled drive technology based on Siemens technology

Special equipment:

- device for producing quarter-bound cases in two operating steps

- device for small format

- device for large format

- Remote Service Gateway

Technical specifications:

- Mechanical speed: up to 65 cycles/min

- Open cover size max.: 205 x 670 mm

- Joint width: 4 - 15 mm

- Spine width: 14 - 120 mm

- Turn in width open: up to 19 mm

- Cloth width: 223 - 708 mm

- Cloth height: 158 - 428 mm

- Board thickness: 1 - 4 mm

- Board width: 95 - 328 mm

- Board height: 140 - 390 mm

- Board centre strip thickness: 1 - 4 mm

- Board centre strip width: 6 - 90 mm

- Centre strip roll thickness: 0,3 - 0,6 mm

- Centre strip roll width: 6 - 90 mm

- Lining width: 195 - 670 mm

- Lining height: 130 - 390 mm