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- Are You Rough Enough?
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2006, ... tension, wrap angle, and traction coefficient can apply enough torque to overcome roller drag and inertial torque—no scratches. But as you want to run faster, with lower tension, or with larger radius, ...
- New Products
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... edge of the top slitter blade and bottom slitter ring. Flexible hosing from each slitter is joined to a common manifold that is piped to a blower and duct collection box. Bearings Last on Ink Pump ...
- Narrow Web New Products
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... NY; 800/THEMILL; mohawkpaper.com Superfine i-Tone is called a breakthrough in uncoated papers for HP Indigo printers. Said to allow printers to expand their capabilities and increase profits. According ...
- The Converting Relay Race: Part II
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2005, ... fast correction rates overly degrades the guide’s system responsiveness. Displacement guides, with their smaller actuators, usually will have a lower capital cost, but for sensitive webs, the long-term ...
- PRINT & CONVERTER 05 New Product Digest
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2005, ... more affordable and easier to install than the standard live shaft idler roll. Facilitates installation, reduces labor, and allows shaft replacements without buying an entire idler roll, the company reports. ...
- Concave Rollers Pros & Cons
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2005, ... entry rule (see “Going With the Parallel Flow,” August 2003). The result: a slight lateral displacement, enough to remove the wrinkle. You can change a standard cylindrical roller into a concave ...
- New Products, Part 2
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2005, ... colors with four-color images or photos by using a special ICC profile that harmonizes the higher densities required when printing ECP, leaving photos in their natural state. Cure with Lower ...
- New Product Digest, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... integral flow control. Program changes and adjustments can be made on-the-fly with results immediately on the products. Includes plug-and-play connectors and compact design for fast, easy installation. ...
- New Product Digest, Part 2
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... Feed Thin Stock Accurately Waddington Electronics, Cranston, RI; 401/781-3904; waddingtonelectronics.com LD Series roll feeds feature a brushless, low-inertia servo motor and closed-loop brushless ...
- Why Tension?
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2005, ... taking out the slack. For more automated lines, before a line goes to "run" mode, I like to see a brief "tension" or "stall" mode, where the follower drives will pull the slack out of the web from unwind ...
- Shear Slitting Can Provide Advantages
- (Archive)
- July 30, 2004, ... in effect, the action that takes place with rotary knives in shear slitting. Returning to our slitting environment, if the web is running slower than the knives, effectively the knife will close in ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- July 30, 2004, ... are precision manufactured to be a third of the weight of comparable standard aluminum idlers, company reports, with a 120% higher load-bearing capacity. Said to provide the lowest inertia rating of any ...
- Friction Circles on a Winter's Da
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2003, ... any time you are trying to use web-to-roller (or web-to-web) traction in the machine and transverse directions at the same time. Following are three cases in which the friction circle explains what ...
- Pay Attention to Tension
- (Archive)
- August 31, 2003, ... on the maker. There are several reasons why slitter/rewinders are treated like plow horses. Slitter/rewinders are relatively low-cost machines (relative to makers), they may not run full-time, and the ...
- A Slippery Answer to Web Scratching
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2003, ... a natural lubricant — air. It is possible to have massive slip, even a stopped roller, and not scratch the web. Air lubrication is promoted by large diameter, high speeds, low tensions, and smooth surfaces ...
- Products
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- April 30, 2003, ... Lung-Meng Machinery (USA) Inc., Miami, FL; 305/591-3388; lung-meng.com Five-layer blown film coextrusion line comprises two 55-mm 30:1 L/D extruders; two 25-mm 30:1 L/D extruders; and one 42-mm 30:1 ...
- New Products for the Converting Industry
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2003, ... WI; 920/876-3361; sohnmanufacturing.com Die stations for rotary die-cutting have interchangeable anvil shafts that allow for different gearing. In-line packaging of products can be achieved after they ...
- New Product Digest, Part 1, PFFC, April 2003
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2003, ... Sohn Manufacturing Co., Elkhart Lake, WI; 920/876-3361; sohnmanufacturing.com Die stations for rotary die-cutting have interchangeable anvil shafts that allow for different gearing. In-line packaging ...
- Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part Two
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2003, ... in roll diameter usually mean increasing tension and torque; therefore, reducing roll build-up ratio with larger cores or shorter roll length may help. Always unwind a roll at a tension lower than it was ...
- Enercon's ELF Roll Designed for Thin Film Converter
- (News | New Products)
- February 04, 2003, Enercon Industries Corporation reports the development of ELF—Enercon low friction—roll specifically designed lighter weight film substrates. MENOMONEE FALLS, WI, USA—Enercon Industries Corporation reports ...
