Fan Blow-Off System

Curved Air Knife X-Stream™ Air-Blade™ - New Fan Blow - off Continues the Gold Standard in Air Knife Curtain Blow-Off Technology

The new X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ air knife is easy to mount and maintain and reduces both compressed air consumption and noise levels. It's curved design produces an expanding, powerful blast of air in a fan shape to blow off wide areas and can minimize air use using longer air knives.

Developed to address areas with limited space to flow off a large area.

As with regular X-Stream™ Air-Blade™ Air Knives, the X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ produces a "laminar"flow of air along its curved face using the "Coanda" effect which entrains a large volume of air from the surrounding area along with a small amount of compressed air to produce and output flow up to 40 times.

Air Knife X-Stream™ Air-Blade™ Brochure 1.64 MB

Features:

X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ is a full flow design with top or bottom mounting holes to easily attach to equipment. Rear air inlet port for compressed air. It is gold coated for longer life

Benefits:

Specifications:

X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ is available in eight standard lengths:

Special lengths of our Air-Blade™ Air Knife are available on special order including lengths combining several units.

(Extra Middle mounting hole only on the 36" Air-Blade™ 457mm from each end)

X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ comes with a standard machined .002" outlet gap which will work for 90% of all applications encountered. If greater force is required, a .002" shim may be installed to open the gap for greater flow. Materials of construction are either coated aluminum or stainless steel.

How It Works:

X-Stream™ Curved Air-Blade™ Blow-Off System produces a curtain of air along the length of the application using the same "Coanda" effect utilized in our Air Amplifiers. There are no moving parts, with compressed air from a local production line source being used to amplify end entrain surrounding air. Output volumes almost twenty times higher than those at the input can be achieved.

Offered in aluminum or stainless steel and can be manufactured in any length from a combination of our standard sizes.

Applications:

Typical applications can replace curved or angled pipe, or rows of nozzles used for blow-off, cleaning, drying or cooling.

Automotive:

• Remove water, coolant, dust, and scrap in parts manufacturing and in assembly operations. Can be used to cool parts. Especially useful to cover wide areas

Bottling:

• Open and close packaging lids or tops.

Chemicals:

• Blow off of chemicals or water prior to labeling or packaging as with bottling operations.

Food:

• Remove water from product or packaging.
• Control application of some materials to the food product such as sugar, icing etc.
• Open pouches in bagging operations. Dry food.

General Manufacturing:

• Part ejection, air curtain barrier, dust and liquid blow off from all types of parts.
• Ideal for replacing fans in some cooling operations.
• Remove scrap from CNC machines
• Four pieces can be put together in a circle and put inside pipe to clean the inside

Metals:

• Coolant and other liquid removal on process lines from Aluminum, Steel, Brass or other materials.
• Dry metals prior to other operations such as plating or polishing.
• Cool metal parts prior to coating or painting.

Paper & Lumber:

• Paper dust removal and control.
• Dust removal from plywood and panel board.

Plastic:

• Dust and scrap blow off.
• Cool off molten plastic in dip molding.

Printing:

• Cooling to set some inks, scrap blow off, hold down labels prior to printing, cool adhesives to allow faster speeds in label applications and binding operations.

Pharmaceutical:

• Remove liquid prior to labeling or packaging waste removal from solid materials.

Textile:

• Cleaning and drying of cloth or other materials.

Compressed Air Consumption Chart:

Based on an Amplification Ratio of 40:1 the air flow out would be 40 times the above.

Compressed Air Flow Through A Hole In Standard Cubic Feet Per Minute
(14.7 Psia/70ºF/0% Relative Humidity)