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- You're Too Tense
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2005, When planning to purchase tension controls, there is a lot for the converter to consider. "It's not just as easy as buying brand X controller and throwing it on your system and away you go." Here are some ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2005, ... path methods employed with razor slitting are a wrapped, supported web over a grooved anvil roller and an unsupported web with the blade bursting through the material. Choice of blade material and employment ...
- New Products
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2005, ... can be integrated quickly and easily into a process control system over industrial networks to improve productivity and operator safety. New 8003-Fieldbus controller can be added to any Virtual AC Neutralizer ...
- New Product Digest, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... unit comprises a Model 3700 power controller and XR ionizer. XR bar is equipped with tungsten emitters for long life and dependable service, company says. Visit booth 3276. Process Plates in Two Ways ...
- Why Tension?
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2005, ... dogs or sheets hanging in the wind to be left untensioned. Tensioning the web in spans and over rollers gives stiffness and straightness not necessarily inherent in the web. Tension-induced stiffness ...
- Who Likes Film?
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2004, ... The very film properties we like in product design come back to haunt us in film handling. Nonporous means air is trapped between the web and roller. Low tension means less driving force to squeeze air ...
- The Harms of Harmony
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2004, ... are usually a bigger problem than tension variations. For roll coating methods, a roller’s speed is a key variable to control coating thickness. For extrusion coating, precision in coating flow and web ...
- Can This Lamination Be Saved?
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... web handling, the excitement usually happens at the web-roller interface. Going around a roller should be an elastic experience. When your flat web is forced around the cylinder of a roller, the curved ...
- Steering Directions Made Simple
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... simpler, since they are often a single actuating roller. Don't be fooled. Thinking a single-roller steering guide is simpler than a two-roller displacement guide is like thinking a unicycle is easier to ...
- Tracking Wrinkles: Part II
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2004, The easiest way to explain roller diameter variation tracking is to walk you through the chain of events. Diameter variations create web strain variations. The easiest way to explain roller diameter variation ...
- New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... tension controller supported by a family of option modules. Modular concept reduces auxiliary equipment costs. Slim profile is said to optimize existing space and fit easily into a machine control panel. ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... suitable for double-sided dust removal at web speeds to 990 fpm and widths from 12-21.5 in. Large-diameter 2-in. adhesive polymer rollers aid cleaning performance at high speeds and lengthen cycles between ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... automatic roll off-loading and palletizing; roll lock differential air shafts; and servo-actuated, triple-mode lay-on roller system for what manufacturer says is maximum versatility. Web speeds are 0-1,500 ...
- 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 ...
- Products and Materials
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... D-Nip real-time nip profiling system allows user to test nip widths while rollers are in rotation, speeding up the calibration and maintenance processes. System is said to be accurate enough to measure ...
- Just Rolling Along
- (Archive)
- September 30, 2003, ... servo motors, controllers, sensors, torque motors, encoders, clutches, and other components and assemblies. However, if the linear motion required of the tool head is a simple, reciprocating motion, ...
- Pay Attention to Tension
- (Archive)
- August 31, 2003, ... zone, most slitter/rewinders have two or more driven rollers leading up to and through the slitting knives. These rollers typically are driven by one motor through a chain or belt drive. A series of driven ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, ... steel regulators are designed to provide accurate pressure regulation and stand up to harsh environments. Said to provide instrument-quality air to valves, pneumatic controllers, transmitters, valve positioners, ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2003, ... Dover Flexo Electronics Inc., Rochester, NH; 603/332-6150; dfe.com The Webhandler3 is a digital version of co.'s WebHandler2 analog tension controller. Automatically maintains a preselected tension set ...
- Winding Better Rolls
- (Archive)
- May 31, 2003, ... One key to quality wound rolls is the winding nip. The winding nip is a roller, driven or idling, that remains in contact with the winding roll throughout its buildup. The winding nip has many aliases, ...
