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[February 2008]
Newly Developed Lingl Brick Positioning Unit Installed for First Time
Hans Lingl GmbH & Co KG (Krumbach, Germany) has launched a new brick filling unit and, after succeeding test runs, the plant has been installed for the first time at a customer – in the brickworks Puttenhausen/Niederbayern operated by Leipfinger-Bader.
Higher and higher demands are made on thermal and sound insulation for house building. The brickmaking industry is now able to meet these demands with a new development, made by UNIPOR-Ziegel Marketing GmbH and Lingl, and to strengthen its position. Succeeding test runs on the UNIPOR test facility convinced Leipfinger-Bader. In September 2007, the first such brick filling unit was started up in the Puttenhausen brickworks, located near Mainburg, Germany.
Since then, Leipfinger-Bader has been producing a new type of the tried and tested UNIPOR brick. The ground bricks with standard perforation are positioned pack by pack on a storage roller conveyor and afterwards unstacked layer by layer by a robot and transferred row by row to a transport conveyor.
In the core piece of the brick filling unit, developed in cooperation with UNIPOR, the voids of the bricks are filled with mineral granulates while being transported continuously. A sophisticated design makes sure that the filling material is evenly distributed in the voids. Then the filled bricks are separated and the excess granulate is returned into the production cycle.
After that, the bricks are grouped on belts once again and stacked by means of robot arms. During this process it is possible to place an intermediate foil between each layer for transport protection. As a last step the packs are transferred to the newly designed packaging machine, the Lingl KombiPack, where a shrink foil is applied. Then they are positioned on a storage conveyor from where they are taken off by a fork lift truck.
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