Vacuum Tank / Water Trough
For Medical & Industrial Tubing, Profiles

Wayne Yellow Jacket® Vacuum Tanks are designed for Vacuum sizing of tubing for medical and industrial uses as well as precision rod and profile manufacturing. They are ideal for making precision tubes for medical uses including insertion tubes and catheter sheaths as well as making other disposable items such as drinking straws and protection tubes for electronic devices. They were designed to meet the high quality demands of the medical industry, but are modestly priced. Wayne Yellow Jacket® Vacuum Tanks have some unique features:

• Dual purpose means that every Wayne Yellow Jacket® tank can be used with vacuum for sizing or without vacuum for cooling free extruded tubes or profiles. Separate controls for the water pump and the vacuum system allow this flexibility in operation. Vacuum enhanced free extrusion is also available, in situations where a low level vacuum is used to maintain roundness but the extrudate is not sized by direct contact with vacuum tooling.
• High precision Vacuum is achieved through a unique Wayne designed dry vacuum system that does not rely on water flow to generate vacuum. This is superior to systems that require a water ring vacuum pump or venturi system which are subject to fluctuation. Each fluctuation in vacuum is a potential variation in the tubing, so Wayne developed this system to avoid these common problems.
• Recirculating water is provided with a 30 gallon reservoir system that includes a pump, replaceable cartridge filter and heat exchanger. The heat exchanger system insures that the water used in the vacuum and cooling tank does not come into contact with the water from a heater/chiller. This is especially important in medical applications.
• Easy adjustment is achieved by the Wayne XYZ movement system with locking ratchet adjustment on the X , threaded adjustment on the Y and handwheel up/down adjustment on each side of the tank for easy alignment in critical production situations.
• Pre-skinning chamber is available as an option for processing sticky materials such as PVC or PU that are commonly used in medical and industrial applications.
• Servo air controls are available as an option that allow the vacuum level to be adjusted by pot control or by a signal from a PLC line control. This allows the entire line to be set up from a PLC recipe without operator intervention.
• Power: 230/1/60 or 50Hz . 110V also available.
• Custom sizes are available such as special length vacuum sections and cooling troughs to meet any application.

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