Abbess can help you press and/or seal your medical, pharmaceutical, food, electronics, and aerospace packaging under vacuum using either seal bar(s) or seal plate(s). Satisfy Quality Control requirements by automatically monitoring, data-logging, and displaying the seal/press conditions.

As an option, prior to sealing/pressing, the same or other Abbess systems can take your product, in-situ, all the way from cleansing through to its degassed, dosed, and even thermal-cured, state. Abbess Instruments reduces your production failures and processing time by eliminating moisture issues, air bubbles, and air cavities … and by automation (through controlling your process variables).

Observe the process with High-Visibility Vacuum Systems. For our aluminum and stainless steel cube chambers, and aluminum Cylinders, visually observe your inventory (illuminated by optional switchable, in-chamber lighting) through full Acrylic doors and/or optional viewports.   Use the same, or other viewports, to optically illuminate/test your in vacuum items at your desired wavelengths. For light-tight operation or testing, use metal doors and cover the ports with blanks.

Automatic Operation:  Abbess will work with you to customize the automation to your process, just as we will work with you to ensure the system configuration meets your production needs:

The simplest press is configured with passive plates (sized to customer requirements) for manual operation.   The press can be upgraded with an actuator for powered pressing (Fig 1), and with heated plates (single or dual) for large area sealing functionality.

While the most basic manual press vacuum system can be controlled manually (by starting/stopping the pump(s) and opening/closing valves), a Vacuum Cycle Controller (VCC) can be added to automate a) vacuum/hold/vent control functions, and b) vacuum and thermal monitoring. Control may be either via panel-mounted buttons and indicators or via a PC with user-specified Graphical User Interface (GUI).  A  digital  VCC will permit a single ‘automatic’ vacuum set point, and is necessary for controlling the press actuator and any thermal plate(s). The seal bar functionality is more complex and must be built in to the PC Touch Screen VCC upgrade option.

With VCC systems, emergency or non-automated vacuum venting can be always readily achieved with the manual vent valves.

Features: A Sealer/Press Vacuum System consists of the following:

For limited counter space, or large batch sizes:
The entire system can be integrated on a cart using identical or mixed-sized chambers. Since cart mounted systems are shipped turn-key, set-up is minimal. Cart-mounting provides full system mobility and thus flexibility of positioning on your production floor.

Sealer/Press Vacuum System upgrade options include: