Visual Dispensing Machine for Custom Metal Badge: Enamel Filling & Surface Gluing Solution
Do you know how metal badges are manufactured?
Metal badges are widely used in corporate logos, commemorative brooches, fridge magnets, fashion accessories, and custom collectibles.
Many customers want to purchase our Visual Dispensing Machine to make high-quality metal badges and to learn about the entire production process of high-quality metal badges.
In fact, the two core processes that determine the appearance and lifespan of the badges are pigment filling and surface gluing.
1. Designing patterns and making molds
Customers first need to determine the product LOGO, patterns, text, or creative drawings that they want to produce.
The design engineer adjusts the patterns according to the metal casting process, confirms the size, color matching, and embossing effect.
After the drawings are confirmed, workers use brass and iron materials to make metal molds.
The molds determine the outline, raised patterns, and the grooves for filling the pigment.
After shaping, the edges are trimmed to remove the excess metal burrs.
2. Pressing/Stamping molding
According to the requirements of the badge production process, choose the pressing or stamping process. The metal raw material is pressed into the mold to form the badge blank.
At this time, the product forms raised and recessed patterns, and the recessed areas are reserved for filling with pigment, followed by trimming to remove the metal burrs.
3. Polishing and surface treatment
The blank of the metal badge undergoes polishing treatment to obtain a smooth and flat base surface.
After polishing, electroplating is required; electroplating can prevent metal oxidation and give the custom metal badges rich and diverse metallic textures.
4. Visual Dispensing Machine filling, coloring and baking
Filling coloring is a crucial process for metal badges.
In the past, factories relied on manual filling of enamel pigments, which was prone to problems such as pigment overflow, uneven coloring thickness, and large product color differences.
However, WELDO's
AB glue Epoxy dispensing Machine is perfectly adapted for the production of customized badge products, and after drawing the glue path according to the badge's pattern design, it fills the colors one by one.
The CCD vision system locates the product and uses its built-in intelligent software algorithm to enable this
Epoxy Doming Machine to layer various irregular or inconsistent badge patterns.
This
soft enamel dispensing machine uses a combination of cylinder and valve components to precisely control the outflow time and flow rate of the enamel glue, inject the enamel color into the badge grooves, and precisely control the amount of paint to avoid covering the raised metal lines.
With multiple SKU frequent changes, quick production switching and stable delivery are needed, and there is no need to worry; the
AB Glue Dispenser supports running multiple files simultaneously for dispensing, ensuring no issues with delivering orders.
It is very efficient and automated. Combined with WELDO's
hot air oven machine to form a production line, it ensures that each badge is fully baked and of high quality.
5. Visual Dispensing Machine gluing
After the pigment baking is completed, most of the metal badges need a transparent epoxy resin protective layer to be applied to the surface. The glue layer can prevent scratches, fading, and water damage, and also gives the product a transparent luster.
This process can also be completed using WELDO's Visual Dispensing Machine.
The vision system automatically identifies the badge position, plans the glue path, and steadily outputs the epoxy resin. Compared to manual gluing, the Epoxy
Doming Machine can significantly reduce problems such as bubbles, glue overflow, and inconsistent thickness of the glue layer.
After epoxy resin gluing is completed, the badge is sent to the constant-temperature oven for curing.
The advantages of using the Visual Dispensing Machine for manufacturing metal badges:
(1) One machine for two purposes, supporting enamel paint filling + epoxy resin surface drop gluing
(2) Visual automatic positioning, no need for strict and precise placement of fixtures
(3) Precise and controllable flow, reducing waste of paint and glue raw materials
(4) Stable product quality, significantly reducing defect rate
(5) Suitable for complex patterns, small brooches, and irregular metal badges
(6) Enhances production efficiency, meets large-scale orders
6. Component Assembly and Finished Product Inspection
After the glue is fully cured, install butterfly clasps, safety pins, magnetic bases, rubber gaskets, etc. as accessories.
The final inspection items include electroplating defects, color leakage, glue layer bubbles, surface scratches, and size deviations.
Qualified metal badges are cleaned and packaged for shipment.
Summary
The production process of custom metal badges includes mold making, shaping, electroplating, pigment filling, epoxy resin drogluing, and assembly.
The
dispensing equipment of WELDO can handle both core processes: enamel filling and surface epoxy resin drogluing.
The upgrade from manual production to visual automated dispensing helps our customers stabilize quality and increase production capacity.
If there is a plan for large-scale production of metal badges, the production line equipped with visual dispensing machines can effectively control production costs and enhance market competitiveness.
