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Solving the Problem of Press Part Replacements

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September 30, 2000, ... relied on Murray Brothers Inc. to produce replacement plate cylinders, gears, and shafts for each of its presses. Comparison Shopping Pays Off Urry first discovered Murray Brothers 11 years ago when ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... says co. Designed for mounting on shaftless unwind stands and other shaft-end applications, it includes a built-in fan for heat dissipation. Simple torque pin-bolt design is said to match the mounting ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... of rotation. Shaftless Unwind Suitable for Clean Room Ashe Converting Equipment, Upswich, U.K.; +44-1-473-710-912; ashe.co.uk Shaftless unwinds are controlled via electric servo motors, making them ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... three-color rotary screen stack unit was designed to interface directly with the Mark Andy frames, with the unit bolted into existing holes as though it was an original part of the press. The unwind driveshaft ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ...  colors; when you have a central drive shaft, all stations are driven by that shaft. This means you can't pre-set for the next run. With individual sectional drives on each color station, you can. For example ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... for separations; a new, lighter weight cylinder base; special tools to process and engrave shaftless cylinders; and shipping/storage containers capable of holding a complete four-color set that also met ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ... the magnetic coil causes a magnetic field that pulls the rotating armature and stationary magnet into contact. The resulting friction between the faces slows rotation of the shaft on which the unit is ...

Converted Solutions Slitter/Rewinder Boosts Productivity on Laminating Line

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March 31, 2000, ... single-shaft, center surface machine with a maximum web width of 3,400 mm. Multiple full-width slitting is achieved with dovetail-mounted, crush-cutting knives cutting against a hardened anvil, crush-cut ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

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October 31, 1996, ... pancakes on two pairs of rewind shafts. This highly polished slippery stock requires sensitive control throughout the conversion process. The slitter features a fully driven unwind fitted with an automatic ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... important - on the equipment itself, because the working cycle is highly automated. The roll of substrate, which can be as wide as 65 inches, is placed into the metallizer and threaded between two shafts. ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... to be the world's fastest in-line slitter/winder for extrusion lines. It features an overlapping turret design with cantilevered swing-out shafts; a servo-driven turret index for rapid, precise, and repeatable ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... assures roll quality, Schwemin reports. Unwind and rewind core shafts are cantilevered for easy roll loading. Automatic splicing allows Duralam's operators to change rolls "on the fly" without shutting down ...

Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment

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April 30, 1996, ... benefit of the system, says Steele, is that the laser can be used to check the squareness of the bottom knives without removing the knives from the shaft. "The knifeholders also feature a quick-change cartridge ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

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February 29, 1996, ... efficiency during roll changes, J. MacKenzie selected shaftless, self-loading roll-stands that eliminate the need for an overhead hoist when loading rolls. The operator simply moves the roll into place ...

Core selection - the difference between success and failure.

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January 31, 1996, ... inner diameter is required for the core to fit properly on the chuck or shaft, which is vital for proper unwinding and to maintain the proper web tension during the printing process. If the core I.D. is ...

Don't forget your unwind

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January 31, 1996, ...  Wilkes notes that, in general, there are five different types of unwinds: shafted, shaftless, center driven, surface driven, and turret. A typical shafted unwind has three main advantages, says Wilkes: ...

New measurement technology improves web control.

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January 31, 1996, ... or directly on the roll shaft end. The signals from the transducers are enhanced in various ways by the central processing electronics, which, in turn, provide system output signals to tension controllers ...

Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.

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December 31, 1995, ... but the thermal characteristics of aluminum. "The weight is one-third that of cast iron. This translates into low inertia, drastically reducing overhung weight, shaft load, and sizing and reducing tension ...

Examining trends in drives and motors

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December 31, 1995, ... (DTC). There is no modulator and no need for an encoder to feed back information about motor shaft speed and position. The DTC control incorporates fast digital signal processing hardware, resulting in ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... as high as 120% on air shafts, for example, meant that the country had to make do with less sophisticated machinery. Today's duties, half that amount, should drop to 25% or below in the next year or so.(*) ...