What is a Playdough Extrusion and Packaging Machine?
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Playdough has always been one of children’s favorite toys, bringing them many wonderful experiences in their childhood. Initially, play dough was only available in one color, a grayish-white. With the advancement of production processes, today’s play dough comes in various colors and scents. We can see glow-in-the-dark type, gold, silver, shampoo scent, aftershave scent, and other types in the market.
Play dough is divided into industrial play dough and ordinary silly putty for children’s play.
Ordinary play dough
Children use play dough as a tool for early childhood learning and entertainment. You can mold it into various shapes, providing replicability. With different-shaped molds or templates, you can make play dough into various items.
Children can create their own projects with the help of teachers or parents. This can help improve their hand-eye coordination, color recognition, and creative thinking skills.
Industrial Play dough
Industrially used play dough is a mud-like material with a wide range of applications.
Characteristics: Advanced colored clay is non-toxic and environmentally friendly. It is mainly used for crafts, hardware, plastic molding, and student sculpture. It is reusable and does not deteriorate over time.
The play dough extrusion packaging machine is used to package play dough on the market. It has automatic extrusion, cutting, and packaging functions. The machine’s speed can reach 200 packages per minute, improving production efficiency and reducing labor costs.
Working Principle of Playdough Extruder Packaging Machine
Working Principle:
In the extruder, the material is continuously formed into a flowing state through pressure, and then formed into the desired shape through the extruding head. The material is cut and formed into the preset length by the cutting device, then fed into the forming device of the flow packaging machine, where it is vertically sealed and horizontally cut and packaged, and finally output as finished products by the discharge conveyor.
Material Feeding:
The extrusion system mainly consists of a screw and a barrel, which are the key parts of the extruder. The colored putty is uniformly formed into a fluid by pressure in the extrusion system and is continuously quantitatively extruded under the pressure established in this process.
Extrusion Molding:
A powerful extrusion force pushes the colored putty through the extrusion head. The shape of the extrusion head (mold) determines the shape of the final product. We customize the shape and size of the extrusion head according to the customer’s packaging requirements.
Product Cutting:
After the machine forms the colored putty into a continuous strip through the mold, it cuts the product at the set length. The cutting system needs precise control of the cutting position to ensure a consistent length of each product.
Product Packaging:
The machine conveys the cut colored putty to the flow packaging machine for packaging. It is suitable for transportation and sale.
Throughout the process, the machine adopts a control system to monitor and adjust production parameters, such as extrusion speed, cutting length, and packaging speed. The control system ensures the stability and efficiency of the production process.
Advantages of the Silly Putty Extrusion Packaging Machine:
1. Automatic extrusion, cutting, packaging, and assembly line operation, can also operate individually for extrusion and cutting.
2. Servo cutter with three actions – cutting, pushing, and lifting, eliminating material dragging.
3. Fully touchscreen operation, setting extrusion speed, cutting length and speed, and packaging speed.
4. The system has an automatic alarm, automatic fault diagnosis, and clear fault display.
5. High-sensitivity photoelectric eye color mark tracking, digital input for sealing and cutting position, making the sealing and cutting position more accurate.
6. Positioning shutdown function, non-stick knife, no waste of packaging film, simple transmission system, more reliable operation, and easier maintenance.
7. Customized extrusion head for extrusion packaging of different-sized materials.
Application Range of Plasticine Extrusion Packaging Machine:
This play dough extruder packaging machine is suitable for soft materials and poorly flowing paste-like materials such as Playdough, flour putty, super light clay, automotive putty, crystal mud, ceramic putty, paraffin oily putty, sugar paste, putty, Tamarind, fig pulp, energy bars, etc.