Shrink Film Folding

Published: December 28, 2006, By pffc-online.com

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UNITED KINGDOM—Designed and manufactured by UK-based Double R Controls, the Shrink Film Folder & Auto Winder provides non-stop batch rewinding for end uses such as tamper-evident packaging of CDs, greeting cards, foodstuffs, and more. Features include rewind tension control profiling, shaftless unwind, multiple tension zones, air-lubricated A-frame, center surface winding, shaftless turreting rewind, trim spooling, high-speed flying splice (up to 600 meters per minute), and a multiple-language operator interface.

Operation starts when mother rolls are introduced into the self-loading, shaftless, driven unwind. The web on leaving the unwind section enters and floats over the air-lubricated A-frame folder, where the film is flat, folded into a double ply web. The folded web now enters the turreting rewind section, where it is batch wound, using a flying splice technique to maintain continuous non-stop production. Once the process is started the only interaction from the operator is to load new cores as the rewind automatically indexes, splices, and unloads the completed reels.

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