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- Page 1 SAFETY, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE Pregis AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Version 3...
- Page 3 OPERATING SAFETY PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Operator safety and the safety of others in the work Ensure that all covers, guards and other safety area depends on the operator using common sense, devices are in place. Never defeat a safety good judgment and reasonable care while operating device for any reason.
- Page 4 If, at any time, a safety sign on the machine becomes lost, damaged or illegible, contact Pregis to order replacement signs at no charge.
- Page 5 PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Introduction Operation The Pregis AIRSPEED 5000 (Figure 1) produces air-filled packing cushions in any quantity, as need- Electrical shock or unexpected machine ed. The ability to create packing cushions on movement can cause injury. DO NOT...
- Page 6 The film is loaded onto the unwind shaft with the seal gap edge facing the inside. The film is then Diverter rollers routed around the outside of a spring-loaded roller. This roller maintains film tension by controlling the amount of braking applied to the unwind shaft. The seal gap edge of the film is then guided over the end of the air injection tube.
- Page 7 An upper and lower Teflon sealing belt are each routed around a set of guide rollers, a spring-loaded Upper Seal Guard/Clamp removed for clarity tensioning roller, and nip rubber rollers. Film is pulled from the roll by the infeed and outfeed nips. See Figure 2.
- Page 8 OPERATOR CONTROLS PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE 1. Operator Interface Screen Used to monitor, select and adjust the air cushion machine operating parameters. Controls 2. Nip Open/Close Lever Used to raise and lower nip drive rollers. 3. Power Switch Used to turn electrical power on and off.
- Page 9 Operator Interface Touch screen Main (Ready to Run) This screen allows the operator to select the machine operating mode. See Figure 5. The three (3) operating modes include: Normal Operation The machine is started and runs continuously until manually stopped, or film supply is depleted.
- Page 10 Automatic Stop after xx ft. PAUSED Used to manually select a length of film to run. The machine will stop once the proximity sen- sor detects the set film length has been run. The quantity of cushions created for the select- ed film length will vary with the cushion size.
- Page 11 Setup the Machine Selecting this function brings up the Advanced Setup and Seal Temperature (Figure 8), Seal Temperature Selecting this function routes you directly to the Seal Temperature screen. See Figure 10. NOTE: Management may protect the seal tem- perature setting by requiring a password to be entered before allowing access to Fig 9 the Seal Temperature screen.
- Page 12 OPERATING PROCEDURE PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Start-Up If not already closed, turn nip Open/Close lever to close the tape drive nips. Electric shock hazard. DO NOT open cover. Do not touch moving components. NOTE: Jogging the film will not initiate infla- Failure to heed may result in injury.
- Page 13 8. Press the START button to create air cushions. 6. Touch the top line button to change to the Set the air volume, by touching the “AIR” button. desired operating mode: The screen will change to “Air Volume” screen (Fig.2). Adjust air volume by using the + or – Normal Operation starts and runs film con- buttons.
- Page 14 SEALING BELT REPLACEMENT PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Introduction Electrical shock or unexpected machine Expected sealing belt life is approximately 100-200 movement can cause injury. DO NOT operate hours (9,000-18,000 meters). The upper belt will machine with guards re...
- Page 15 Turn both nip Open/Close levers up to open the belt drive nips. See Figures 1 and 2. 1. Remove the front upper and lower guard cov- ers by removing the fasteners. 2. Lift the upper guard/clamp and seal wire Shaft assembly off the lower clamp block and plat- en, while turning the cam shaft.
- Page 16 Fig .4 Seal Belt Routing...
- Page 17 MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Monthly Maintenance 1. Check all components for excessive wear, Electrical shock or unexpected machine including the nip plastic drive gears, rubber movement can cause serious injury or nip rollers, and the slitter blade.
- Page 18 TROUBLESHOOTING PREGIS AIRSPEED 5000 AIR CUSHION MACHINE Cause: Insufficient injection air. Solution: Check if air injector tube is plugged Electrical shock or unexpected machine or disconnected. movement can cause serious injury or Check if blower is operating death. For your safety, follow your compa- properly.
- Page 19 3. Problem: Film jams. (Cont’d.) Cause: Film or belts not being pulled. Solution: Ensure the outfeed nips are closed Cause: Film not being pulled evenly. completely. The rubber nip rollers should compress together resulting in Solution: Ensure the infeed nips are closed. a 0.38"...
- Page 20 Solution: Replace the sealing wire. 6. Problem: Main screen “Ready To Run” mes- sage replaced with “Change Belts” message. NOTE: Allow the seals to cool for approxi- mately one minute before testing. Cause: Belt Odometer screen has reached the preset belt change interval Cause: Sealing wire not hot enough.
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