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The Great Span Length Debate | Part 2

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2009, ... effect on web-to-roller traction. Longer spans don't increase the friction coefficient, tension, wrap angle, lubrication, or roughness/grooving. If sequential rollers are wrapped in over-under-over-under, ...

BJBall Papers Adds Pemco Sheeter

(Sheeting)

March 31, 2009, ... capability. A dancer tensioning control system offers stability of substrates at high speed. The machine has been fitted with a fully automated stacker, which will supply press-ready pallets of sheeted ...

Victory Lane

(Trends/Management)

March 31, 2009, ... tension, maintenance for process lines, slitting, winding, and web guiding. Register in advance at www.maxcessu.com. PFFC's “Web Lines” columnist, Timothy J. Walker, president of TJWalker + Assoc., will ...

Static Specified

(Archive)

March 31, 2009, ... is running properly. For example, Figure 1 depicts the threadup for a simple coater with several common conveyance elements. A float roller controls the unwinding tension; a steering frame guides the film ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: April 200

(New Products)

March 31, 2009, ... Money Company offers a refurbishing service for users of the Tension Roll transducer. This alternative to the full-price replacement of such rolls is said to provide a “like new” product, typically in ...

Celplast Metallized Products, Davis-Standard Host One-Day Course

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2009, ... spreading, and winding flexible packaging papers, films, foils, and nonwovens. The importance of in-wound tension was discussed, how it is achieved and measured on various types of winders, as well as ...

Surface Winder Is Reversible

(News Eclips)

March 03, 2009, ... Additional features include a gap winding mode, programmable tension controls, fully automatic roll transfers, and an integrated shaft hoist that returns the shaft to the loading position without requiring ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 1

(Web Lines)

February 28, 2009, ... and significant as spans are closer to horizontal, when it causes catenary sag (the same as the sag of high tension power lines between poles). In a 20-ft span, a 1-mil polyester web at 1 PLI will sag ...

Narrow Web & Label Products: March 2009

(Label/Tape Main)

February 28, 2009, ... Provides Accuracy The N-Series load cell is said to provide accurate, repeatable tension measurement of paper, film, foil, and other web materials. Offers eight roll widths standard and four semi-conductor ...

Handle Unsupported Film Without Stretching

(Slit Main)

February 28, 2009, ... looking for something that could run faster, but we had very specific requirements around the unsupported webs, using very thin films, and trying to run them at speeds without any stretch or tension issues,” ...

Reader Reaction: Top Ten Products for Converters

(New Products)

February 28, 2009, ... “Servo mode” main drive and rewind tension inside the control system reportedly make perfect web control attainable. Remote diagnostics enable instant service and support. Mark Andy Inc. | 636-532-4433 ...

Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners

(Flexpack Main)

February 28, 2009, ... unique opening solutions, reduced waste, market extension, gorgeous graphics, and new technology. To celebrate these advancements, the Flexible Packaging Assn. (FPA), Linthicum, MD, honors 24 packages ...

What's New Products: March 200

(Magazine)

February 28, 2009, ...  CD Series brakes is said to make installation and setup easier, improve performance, make brakes more sensitive, and permit lower tension applications. The new version has pistons on both sides of th ...

Unwind, Rewind Modules Improve Web Control

(News Eclips)

February 16, 2009, Converter Accessory Corp. introduces its SimpLok unwind and rewind modules designed to increase capacity WIND GAP, PA | Converter Accessory Corp. introduces its SimpLok unwind and rewind modules designed ...

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

(Web Lines)

January 31, 2009, ... to the web due to low tension, lubricated traction, or a small wrap angle, wrinkles are less likely to form. If the web span is difficult to bend, such as short spans or thicker, wider webs, wrinkles may ...

What's New Products: Februar

(Magazine)

January 31, 2009, ... input line for PLC, and external programming. ◆Tri-Tronics Co. | 800-237-0946 | www.ttco.com PFFC-ASAP 400 Amplify the Tension Signal The TrueTension TI17C amplifier takes the tension signal to ...

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2008, ... the web. To drive an edge of the web into slackness, the misalignment of two rollers in a web span needs to be two times the stretch in the web. In this case, the tension in the centerline of the web ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

December 31, 2008, ... speed and torque control. Other features include core or coreless winding, unwinding, variable speed, positive speed, and tension control. Daven Industries | 800-834-8848 | www.davenindustries.com  ...

Sensing Roll Combines Strain Gauge/Tube

(Tension)

December 17, 2008, The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge... The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge with a durable, high performance, lightweight aluminum ...

Intelligent In-Line Press for Narrow to Mid-Web

(News Eclips)

December 03, 2008, Comco’s C1 ProGlide press features the I-Drive intelligent drive system for in-line printing in narrow to mid-web applications CHESTERFIELD, MO | Comco’s C1 ProGlide press features the I-Drive intelligent ...