VERTICAL BLIND MACHINES

VB1 Plus 

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WHY DID WE UPGRADE THE ALREADY SUCCESSFUL OLD VB1 VERTICAL BLIND MACHINE?

After selling and supporting the old VB1 design for 20 years we knew all the good and the not so good points of the old VB1. We have sought to build and improve on the good and eliminate the less good and in so doing this upgrade represents a massive improvement to an already market leading machinery product.

We listened to you, our customers, and all your feedback has gone into this new upgraded design

All the consumable parts are compatible with the old model (guillotine blades , hole punch and die, drive rollers, etc. So, if you have an old and a new machines these parts are interchangeable. What isn’t changed is Australian support. Martin has 17 years experience on the VB1 machine and all parts are held now locally in Australia.

FEATURES

  • New improved bigger and easier to navigate TOUCH SCREEN
  • New improved ergonomics (no foot stools)
  • New improved PLC with more intuitive easier calibration
  • Stacks automatically in a perfectly neat pile
  • Fast, accurate and can do up to ten blinds in one operation
  • Output is now faster on average 16 – 20 louvers/minute 
  • Gives a fabric-required and fabric-used read out
  • Places marker tabs between blinds – easy take off
  • Fabric-out sensors – auto stop until reloaded
  • Easy blind recalls for that extra louvre
  • Compact so it can fit in any workshop
  • Set up with your preferred top and bottom crease positions
  • Sloping windows mode included as standard
  • Compact and on castor wheels
  • OPTION:  Blind data upload via LAN from office or via USB

AUSTRALIAN MADE

The new VB1 Plus is 100% Australian manufactured at the Queensland Factory. This makes the new VB1 Plus a 100% better supported machine for you, no matter where you are located.

Improved Ergonomics

The old VB1 has the machine head up high on a post requiring operators to hop on a stool to load fabric and feed into the machine head. If machine operators weren’t very tall they had difficulty.

The machine head and roll holder is now at an ergonomic height – not mounted up on a post

Bigger Screen

  • Much bigger touch screen for easier operator interface.
  • Louvres remaining count down - see at a glance the quantity left to make.
  • See the whole 10 blinds on screen – really easy to edit.
  • Easier calibration of machine with prompts on screen to help with the process.
  • So easy to then make one extra louvre for any blind
  •  Clearer and more intuitive to operate and with helpful pointers on screen.

New Fabric In Feed

On the left side of the machine the infeed has a great system of passive rollers for dealing with the various tension of the roll – this eliminates the drag on fabric entering the machine head it means that slightly inconsistent lengths due to this is totally eliminated – a really fantastic new feature.

The infeed has a bearing mounted roll holder to slip through the fabric roll and then it is simply placed on the machine – so easy

New Louvre Outfeed

The new chute comes in 2 parts so 2100mm louvre is off the floor if you use the full chute. The chute comes apart in the middle to a delivery height at 900 mm, a standard bench height

Waste Bin

Waste fabric from punched out holes typically end up on the floor all around a vertical blind machine. No more sweeping up! A collection shaft delivers them straight into a waste plastic bin.

Easy access to adjust tension

Ease to service and access to Drive Roller area to adjust roller tension.

Easy access to Drive Roller

Fast easy slide out of the drive roller and the counting roller so it is easy to remove masking tape or to clean rollers as required.

There is now adjustment of tension on the counting roller, making it easy to keep the machine accurate. With no adjustment on the old VB1 inaccuracy became an increasing problem

With this new design many service issues can be performed by clients or better able to keep the machine accurate with help available over the phone or via a smart device.

Rapid set up

The VB1 can come to you in a crate and it is on its castor wheels so after it is lifted out on the floor it is simply a case of bolting the chute on and connecting the power and air. You can be running in only a few minutes. We’ll be happy to guide you through the screens and initial operation. An operator manual will be included.

For overseas clients we can also flat pack the VB1 Cabinet. This would lower the shipping costs.

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