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Tension: The First Thing We Must Get Right

(Coating/Laminating)

April 14, 2024, ... use brakes. Medium speed / medium tension processes may use clutches or differential shafts. Festoons and dancers often use cylinders to provide tension. Processes that require higher performance for speed, ...

Tension: The First Thing We Must Get Right

(Converting Expert)

April 08, 2024, ... processes may use clutches or differential shafts. Festoons and dancers often use cylinders to provide tension. Processes that require higher performance for speed, tension or acceleration will use variable ...

The Merits of a Repurposed Slitter Rewinder

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

February 18, 2024, ... drive system. Higher winder speeds often require faster control reaction times where an electronic tension control system might replace an older mechanical dancer roll. Replacing worn components is a ...

Web Handling, Proper Tensioning & Guiding

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

November 15, 2023, ... measure the unwind roll diameter and adjust the drag force accordingly or with web feedback such as a force transducer or dancer to automatically maintain constant tension. Advantages: Allows for the web ...

Winding: Part 3 - Tension, Nip and Torque

(Web Handling)

January 22, 2023, ... air loaded dancer, and draw (velocity) control. Although not common, some winders run to a defined strain to control web registration. Older paper machine reels often use motors running in torque mode. ...

Winding Part 3: Tension, Nip and Torque

(Converting Expert)

January 16, 2023, ... an air loaded dancer and draw (velocity) control. Although not common, some winders run to a defined strain to control web registration. Older paper machine reels often used motors running in torque mode. ...

Martin Automatic – Essential Efficiency for Web Fed Applications

(Coating/Laminating)

January 11, 2022, ... also its original patented designs, such as the inertia compensated dancer roller and the AirnertiaTM idler roller, which offers high-frequency response to speed changes in processes running delicate webs. ...

In the Spotlight: IMS Technologies Q&A

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 29, 2021, ... “open-loop” with no load cell or dancer roller to provide feedback or calibration of tension. How does your equipment calculate or estimate tension without load cells or dancers? When not using load ...

Cut-to-Length Solution: AZCO Corp.

(News | New Products)

May 09, 2019, ... which compress and adhere the liners to the extrusion. A dancer controls the speed of the nip rollers and keeps the material from wandering. An internal guide directs the material from the drive rollers ...

Maxson Web Splicer Is Automatic

(Carton Box)

November 14, 2017, ... speeds of 1,000 fpm (330 mpm). A driven caption roll assists the new roll’s web in accelerating to line speed quickly after a splice is made. Using a dancer roll system and programmable logic controller, ...

AGL Custom Designs New Laminator

(Coating/Laminating)

January 05, 2017, ... are aligned utilizing an AccuWeb wide-array ultrasonic Electronic Web Guide Control System.  Other features include a low-tension feedback system via a dancer controlled feedback to the product unwind, ...

Esko Method Helps Companies Meet FDA Regs

(Label/Tape)

November 18, 2016, The company reports a three-method solution to help companies comply with new FDA rules regarding nutritional facts on labels GHENT, BELGIUM | Esko has revealed a solution to help manufacturers adhere ...

Web Lines | Unwind Splice Reliability

(Web Handling)

October 24, 2016, ... with dancer roller feedback. 9. Splice Tape Bond > Tension (and Other Applied Forces) The newly formed bond of the splicing tape to the web must withstand tensioning, roller contact, nipped roller ...

Double E Delivers Stored Material to Converting with Solis Accumulator

(News | New Products)

January 10, 2016, ... infeed roller system and an outfeed pneumatic dancer roller. The webbing position on the accumulator allows straight-through web path with easy integration of web guiding and inspection lamps, while the ...

AZCO Sheeter Has Automated Stacking System

(News | New Products)

March 14, 2015, ... a 29-in.-wide roll of 0.003-in.-thick aluminum material.  The process begins with the roll of material loaded onto a motorized, single-shaft unwind. The unwind is equipped with a dancer attachment and ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2015 Returns to Orlando with Added Features

(Trends/Management)

January 05, 2015, ... chucks for quick roll changes. A motorized unwind with a dancer assembly provides constant web tension as the material goes over the ball-bearing idler rollers. Precision ground urethane rollers are turned ...

Karlville Equipment Covers Wide Range

(News | New Products)

September 30, 2014, ... coating system, rigid shaftless unwind/rewind units, driven, with closed loop tension control via dancer roller and what is said to be exceptional lamination pressure control. • The K2 Model stand-alone ...

Converting Headaches? Get Relief at CPP EXPO's PFFC-Sponsored Technical Session

(Trade Shows)

July 13, 2014, ... best practices of tension zone strategy, speed vs. torque control, open vs. closed loop control, and dancer vs. load cell roller feedback. C16 Wrinkle-Free Web Handling: Stop the Cause Monday, September ...

Skipnes Enhances Print, Finishing with Martin Splicers

(Label/Tape News)

May 07, 2013, ... 4000 meter rolls of blank labels that are die-cut and fed into a Vectra turret rewinder, with the matrix removed and rewound. Poor infeed tension, owing to the lack of a dancer roll, had been causing a ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2013

(Trends/Management)

February 04, 2013, ...  and safety chuck page, entire line up for brakes, and its dancer tension control system also will be on display. New products include the customizable NS series load cells, filament load cell, I4 tensio ...