Industrial Adhesive Tape Line

MWES provided our customer with a web handling machine that takes an extruded web from the extruder, cools the web, treats both sides of the web, adds a silicone coating to the top side of the web and an adhesive coating to the bottom side of the web.  The machine also laminates a release liner to the bottom side of the web and automatically winds the web onto 3-inch diameter cores. The web handling machine can handle a maximum of 0.032-inch thick by 6-inch wide material and the machine can house additional printing equipment.

The entire machine is a welded structure with a support structure under a tubular frame. Additionally, the machine supports a cabinet skin and access door and a vertical frame plate made from mild steel with nickel plating which is also the main support for the turret disk. The vertical frame plate serves as a mounting surface for all the web handling equipment. Such as the cantilevered idlers, cantilevered load cell rolls, chill roll, laminating nip roll assembly and cantilevered unwind.

The operator is responsible for unloading the wound rolls, loading empty cores, positioning cores as required, adding adhesive splice tape to cores, positioning the splice tape and activating inflate mode. The operator side of the machine is open for roll unloading and core loading. A light curtain stops the turret from rotating if the safety circuit is broken.

The entire machine is separated into four distinct sections for processing the web: Chill, Rewind & Accumulator Section, Liner Unwind & Laminate Section, Treater & Adhesive Coating Section, and a future printing equipment section. The accumulator can hold up to 108-inches of web at full capacity which equals approximately 9 seconds of web at 60 FPM web speed.