Collmann Launches VerTix Tyre X-Ray Machine

German machinery builder Collmann has designed and introduced a passenger car, and truck and bus tyre x-ray machine that the company says looks “quite different” from all existing x-Ray machinery. The new machine, known as the VerTiX, offers a similar layout and operation for passenger car tyre (13 to 24-inch) and for bus, light truck and truck tyre (15 to 27-inch) variants. The testing machine is built on a single base frame and is designed to fit inside a 20-foot container. Collmann says it can be set up for use at a site within a single day. The VerTiX unit can load, measure and unload a single tyre in less than twenty seconds, even in mixed operations. This equals a 20 per cent greater capacity than machines currently on the market.

The VerTiX, says Collmann, can also be supplied with ‘CI’ (CollmannInspector) automatic defect recognition software, which supports the operator in finding defects in the tyre, such as kinked beads, off-centre breakers, body ply mis-arrangements or foreign objects. It can also execute real distance measurements, without the requirement of calibration.

The first VerTiX unit, a passenger car tyre variant, was sold at the end of 2008 to an Asian customer, who Collmann reports is “convinced of the high throughput and the superior image quality.”