What are the advantages of wet wipe equipment?

Wet wipes are commonly used in everyday life, typically packaged in standard paper-plastic bags. After opening, simply snap the wet wipe lid back onto the bag to seal it. If unused wipes aren’t properly protected after opening, they can dry out or become contaminated, leading to waste. However, using the wet wipe lid helps keep them dust-free and moisturized, making it essential to use such lids regularly. As a result, the role of wet wipe dispensing equipment becomes especially important—so let’s explore together what advantages these wet wipe devices offer!

The traditional wet wipe cover consists of two parts: an upper lid and a base, which fit together securely. The base features an opening designed for easy access to the wipes, while the upper lid is hinged above the base, allowing it to flip open or closed. Traditionally, these covers are produced using an injection-molding machine, which forms both the lid and base in a single molding process. After molding, the lid and base remain unfolded, lying roughly on the same horizontal plane. At this stage, the lid and base must be promptly folded into their final shape for proper setting and subsequent packaging. However, currently, this folding step is entirely manual—time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often lacks standardized procedures. As a result, incomplete folding can compromise the cover’s ability to seal properly. Key aspects of wet wipe equipment technology:

The purpose of the wet wipe equipment is to address the aforementioned issues present in the current wet wipe cap production process by introducing a highly automated wet wipe cap manufacturing and processing device.

This wet wipe device can be realized through the following technical methods: The equipment includes an injection molding machine, which is used to produce the entire open-state wet wipe lid via injection molding. A robotic arm is employed to pick up and remove the fully molded lid from the injection molding machine, then fold it using a laminating and forming unit. Notably, the system features a conveyor table equipped with a belt-pressing mechanism positioned directly above the table, creating a pressing space between the two. At one end of the conveyor table, there’s a horizontally oriented auxiliary folding rod that extends higher than the table’s surface. The control system coordinates the robotic arm to pre-fold the injection-molded lid by guiding it over this auxiliary folding rod, after which the pre-folded lid is sequentially stacked onto the conveyor table. Finally, the conveyor belt transports the stacked lids precisely beneath the pressing station, where they are fed into the pressing mechanism for further processing.

The wet wipe equipment is placed on a conveyor belt, with anti-tilt devices arranged at regular intervals along the direction of conveyance. These anti-tilt devices are positioned perpendicular to the surface of the conveyor belt’s worktable and consist of multiple vertical posts that enclose the overlapping space where the wet wipes—before folding—are stacked. Inside each post, a pressing rod is installed, with a return spring positioned between the rod and the post. Thanks to the return spring, the upper end of the pressing rod protrudes outward from the post when no external force is applied.

In the wet wipe equipment, the layering mechanism consists of a bracket, a pressing plate, and a cylinder. The cylinder’s body is fixed to the bracket, while its piston rod is vertically secured to the horizontal pressing plate. The cylinder controls the up-and-down movement of the pressing plate.

The wet wipe equipment conveyor table consists of a lifting platform, a base, and two lifting frames. The two lifting frames are positioned at both ends of the lifting platform, forming an H-shaped structure that includes two vertical plungers and a horizontal beam. At each end of the horizontal beam, there are tubes attached to the bases of the two vertical plungers. The upper ends of the vertical plungers are pivotally connected to the lifting platform, while their lower ends slide into the corresponding tubes. A height-adjustment mechanism—comprising a screw and a handwheel—is installed between the lifting frames and the base. The handwheel is securely fixed to the screw, with its upper end linked to the horizontal beam for smooth, unrestricted rotation within predefined upper and lower limits. Meanwhile, the lower end of the screw is threaded into the base. Compared to existing technologies, this wet wipe lid production and processing equipment enables robotic arms to pre-fold and neatly stack fully molded wet wipe lids before they are uniformly compressed and secured by a pressing plate. This ensures consistent folding standards and significantly enhances the level of automation in the manufacturing process.

That’s all about the advantages of wet wipe equipment—feel free to reach out to us anytime if you’d like to learn more!