The appearance and body processing of electronic cigarettes generally requires multiple fine processes to form a dazzling appearance. The common flat smoke series adopts stainless steel body, one-piece molding process, and surface treatment such as anodizing and sandblasting. In addition to stainless steel, electronic cigarette materials include aluminum alloy, zinc alloy, plastic material, glass, ceramics, etc.
Let’s take a look at what processes may be involved in the processing of electronic cigarette rods of these materials to form a colorful appearance.
1. Sandblasting
The fully automatic high-speed sandblasting process uses compressed air as the power to form a high-speed jet beam, and sprays the spray material to the surface of the host shell at a high speed, so that the dirt on the surface of the stainless steel raw material can be removed, and at the same time, the adhesion between the body and the coating can be increased, and the coating can be extended. The durability of the membrane improves the fatigue resistance and grade of the host shell.
This process can make the surface of the host have the characteristics of no fingerprints, not easy to scratch, anti-skid, no sweat, and prolong the service life by 4-5 times. Fan Li high-end, outstanding details. Simple and stylish design, there are no buttons or charging ports on the front, and the cross-section is designed with a full arc, which completely fits the shape of the hand and creates a perfect body shape.
2. Anodizing
Anodizing is one of the most commonly used surface treatment processes for aluminum alloys. Anodic oxidation is to use metal or alloy parts as anodes to form oxide films on the surface by electrolysis. After oxidation, it can improve corrosion resistance, enhance wear resistance and hardness, and protect metal surfaces. Anodizing is the most widely used and most successful surface treatment technology, and it does not produce toxic substances.
3. Laser engraving
Laser engraving technology is a surface treatment process that uses laser high temperature to “burn” the surface material of rubber and plastic parts to form text and patterns.
Laser engraving, the body is instantly melted and vaporized under laser irradiation, and the logo is engraved. The laser laser process makes the logo not scratched, the surface remains smooth, and the writing will not wear out.
4. Spray
Spraying is a coating method that is dispersed into uniform and fine droplets by means of pressure or centrifugal force through a spray gun or disc atomizer, and is applied to the surface of the object to be coated.
Disposable electronic cigarettes like amber use the multi-layer spraying process of car pearl paint, which not only looks beautiful, but also improves the texture of the product and increases the hardness of the paint surface, which can effectively reduce scratches and paint peeling.
5. PVD
Physical Vapor Deposition, PV technology means that under vacuum conditions, using physical methods, the material source-solid or liquid surface is vaporized into gaseous atoms, molecules or partially ionized into ions, and through a low-pressure gas (or plasma) process, in the matrix A technique for depositing a thin film with a special function on the surface.
6. Polished
Polishing is the process of reducing the surface roughness of an object using physical machinery or chemicals. The polished workpiece surface is smooth and has good reflection effect. According to the fineness of the surface of the product, cloth wheel, nylon wheel, hemp wheel and water grinding process can be selected. If the surface requirements of the product are not very high, cloth wheels and nylon wheels can be used for grinding. If the requirements are high, hemp wheels or even water grinding must be used. A number of products have been mirror-polished on electronic cigarette rods.
7. Metal wire drawing
Metal wire drawing is a surface treatment method that forms lines on the surface of the workpiece by grinding the product, which has a decorative effect. There are straight lines, random lines, swirls and so on.
The appearance created by the metal wire drawing process is not only stylish, but also sturdy and durable. The wire drawing process strengthens the metal texture and enhances the effect of scratch resistance, oxidation resistance and rust resistance.
8.IML
IML (In mold label) is the injection molding of in-mold inserts, which prints patterns and patterns on the inner surface. A molding method in which the sheet of text and Logo is hot-pressed into the 3D shape of the product, and then the shape and inner hole are punched out, put into the injection mold cavity for injection molding, and the molten resin is combined with the sheet to form an integrated and solidified product.
IML process decoration is lined with microfiber, the appearance is smooth and beautiful, the more you touch it, the brighter it is, and it has excellent scratch resistance. The application of the plastic shell on the electronic cigarette is gradually expanding.