The VJ Instruments table top Film Former coating machine is intended for development and small production of transdermal therapeutic delivery system laminates (TDS-patches) as well as to create edible films/ oral dissolvable film bulk were (EDF/ODF) without any further modification. It permits continuous coating of 150 mm wide webs with successive lamination.
The machine contain a coating head, where the coating knife is installed. This special tools guarantees an extreme high product quality with an ultimate accuracy of ±1% over the entire coating width and has therefore the lowest thickness variation available on the market.
The machine is built in a balcony manner with all the electric and other driving parts on the back of a 1400 x 540 mm big mounting plate. On the front of the plate the coating head, the winder shafts, the web guiding items, and the dryer cabin is mounted. The Temperature settings, the delivery rates of the pump and the web speed are adjustable on the top of the machine. Thus, all functions of the machine can be manipulated from the front side/ topside.
The substrate is coated onto a 3”diameter unwinder shaft mounted on the left side of the machine. From there, the web is pulled through the machine by the rewinder, situated on the right side of the machine. On its way through the machines, the web is at first guided around a coating roll onto which the knife is mounted. This knife spreads the desired fluid onto the passing –by web.