Equipment Maintenance & Care

1.1 Heater Lubrication Points

1.2 Centralized Lubrication System

1.3 Mould Carrier Lubrication Points

1.4 Preform Infeed / Discharge Guide Lubrication

1.5 Transmission System Lubrication

1.6 Manipulator Lubrication

1.7 Encoder Lubrication

1.8 Mechanical Seal Guide Lubrication

1.9 Stretch Rail Lubrication

1.10 Left / Right Cam Lubrication

2.1 Open / Close Mould Arm Position

1) Raise (install) the swing-arm positioning guide. Inch the machine so the swing-arm bearing reaches the arc of the positioning guide; the bearing should pass tangent to the guide. If there is a deviation, loosen the screws of the swing-arm clamping collar, align the bearing tangent to the guide, then tighten the locking screws diagonally.

2) If the mould closing is abnormal or unsmooth during operation, leave a suitable clearance between the guide and the bearing, measure it with a feeler gauge, and keep a record.

2.2 Mould Flatness Check

1) Inch the machine and use a dial gauge to check the flatness of the mould neck plates; the deviation must be adjusted within 0.1 mm.

2) If the dial-gauge error is severe, loosen the three set screws on the adjusting nut at the lower end of the mould-carrier main shaft, and turn the adjusting sleeve on top of the nut with a wrench: clockwise lowers the mould carrier, counter-clockwise raises it.

2.3 Bottom Mould Bearing Flatness

1) With the mould locked, press the bottom mould to its lowest position and adjust the clearance between the limit screw and the mould carrier to 0.1 mm, so the bottom mould sits at the correct height in the mould slot.

2) Check the flatness of the bottom-mould bearing. If there is a deviation, add or remove shims between the bottom mould and its support bracket to make the bearings level.

2.4 Bottom Mould Guide & Bearing Clearance

1) Inch the machine so the bottom-mould bearing travels about 20-250 mm along the bottom-mould guide, then adjust the guide so the clearance between guide and bearing is 0.05-0.1 mm.

2) At the outlet end of the guide, the bearing-to-guide clearance must be >= 0.2 mm.

3) The bottom-mould guide has two fixed seats; adjust the screws and jacking screws on the guide seat to set the guide height.

2.5 Seal Head & Mould Top-face Clearance

1) When the bearing moves to the top plane of the guide, use a caliper to check the clearance between the seal head and the mould top face; it should normally be 24-25 mm.

2) If there is a deviation, adjust it by the screws that fix the mechanical seal guide.

4.1 Safety & Inspection Facilities

Working content: check whether it is dirty, damaged, working normally or not; clean, repair or change if necessary;

Inspecting standard: ensure the installation of all safety and inspection facility is right and working normally; there is no scratch or crackle on the reflecting glass of photoelectric cell.

4.2 Filter

Working content: check whether there is a leakage or not, the volume of chilling water; fasten, change parts and discharging chilling water if necessary;

Inspecting standard: cleanness of filter, liquid level of chilling water could be over the standard.

Remark: the job could be done before reducing the pressure of the system; each filter should be done like this (please do not forget to treat cabinet, compressed air).

4.3 Mould

Working content: clean mold and check air exit hole;

Inspecting standard: the mold is clean and air exit is smooth.

4.4 Infrared Lamp

Working content: check the lamps by eyeballing, change the broken lamp or those could not be used any more, adjust the distance if necessary;

Inspecting standard: the lamp is not broken, light of lamp is normal and the position of lamp meets the demand.

Remark: when check, the light of lamp could not be too high to avoid hurting the eye; adjust and change lamp after reducing the temperature and shutting down the power.

4.5 Water / Air / Oil Circuits

Working content: check whether there is a leakage and the bolt connection of pipe is stable or not;

Inspecting standard: there is no leakage.

4.6 Driving Components

Working content: check the tension of synchronous belt is suitable, worn out or not, check the surface of gear is worn out or not, relative position of wheel meets the demands or not, tension or change parts if necessary;

Inspecting standard: belt is not aging, mangling, broken, wearing in allowing range (synchronous belt must has correct direction), suitable tension; the wearing on the surface of gear is in the allowing range; the difference of height of driving wheel is less than 0.5% of axis distance, the angle misposition of driving wheel is less than 0.25° each meter of axis distance, the surface of gear is less than 1mm.

4.7 Slewing Bearing

Working content: check sealing ring is right, connecting bolt is stable and the lubrication is good or not, the wearing condition of gear;

Inspecting standard: sealing ring is right, connecting bolt is stable, lubrication is good and wear of gear is even and in the allowing range.

4.8 Reducer

Working content: check there is a leakage and the quality of lubrication grease is good or not, whether lubrication oil meets the demand. Reseal and add oil if necessary;

Inspecting standard: there is no leakage, oil level is normal and the quality of oil is good.

Remark: when there is more foreign material in the oil, please contact with professional company or engineers of china-beverage company.

4.9 Cooling Water

Working content: the quality of water;

Inspecting standard: refer to relative standard.

Remark: use clean container to take the sample and seal the sample.

3.10 Pneumatic Components

Working content: check each pneumatic element is working or not;

Inspecting standard: refer to relative standard.