Custom Solutions

Requirements

Copper and aluminum foil needed to be slit to size. The copper was .0005” thick and the aluminum foil was .001” thick. A 3” inside dimension roll weighed 35 lbs.

Requirements

This application included unwinding and feeding a 4.5 mil x 1 ½” wide plastic roll of tape. The material operated at speeds of 1700 inches per minute.

Material:  Absorbent pad and oxygen absorber

Requirements:

This application required cutting and placing absorbent pads into trays on a moving line, and then cutting and dispensing  desiccant into the same trays.

Material:  Multi-layered product

Requirements: 

This application required slitting a multi-layered product to the following specifications:

• 3” long
• 18” wide
• 2” or 4” slits

Material:  Rubberized caulk

• Material Width:                14”
• Material Thickness:         4mm
• Slit Width:                         ½”                          

Requirements: 

This application required slitting material in sheet form and then rewinding the slit material.

Material:  Plastic film in roll form

Requirements: 

This application required unwinding, slitting and cutting to length plastic film from a roll.

Our customer needed a custom slitting unit five (5) independently-controlled knives, all operated via separate switches. This unit included an output shaft and is motorized lower anvil. Unit will include switches to make each blade independent from the other.

Material:  EZ load polyester lamination film

Requirements: 

 This application required unwinding EZ load polyester lamination film material from a roll, and cut the material to length.

Material:  Hook & loop and elastic in roll form

 Requirements:

 This application required one system to unwind and cut two different types of materials at different lengths.

Material:  Gauze

• Cut lengths:  3” and 5”
• Material width:  9” and 18”
• Roll ID:  3”
• Roll OD:  16”

Requirements: 

This application required unwinding gauze from a roll, and then pleating, heat sealing, and cutting it to length.

Material:  Gauze

• Cut lengths:  3” and 5”
• Material width:  9”
• Roll ID:  3”
• Roll OD:  16”

Requirements: 

This application required unwinding gauze from a roll, and then pleating, heat sealing, and cutting it to length.

Material:  16mm and 28mm fibrous strap material

Requirements

Unwind, feed, and cut a roll of material to 750mm, and after it was cut create stacks of 20 to 30 pieces into an indexing conveyor.  After the stack was made, the index conveyor would index into a new position and build a new stack.

Material:  ½” wide adhesive with 1” wide release liner.  A 1.5” release liner is added to the top of the material.

Requirements: 

This application required unwinding and joining two rolls of material and then cutting it to a determined length.

Material:  PTFE sheets

Requirements: 

This application required cutting hand fed PTFE sheets to length.

Material:  Polyester lamination film

• Cut length: 2” to 3”
• Material width: Maximum 70mm
• Material thickness:  .003”
• Roll ID: 3”
• Roll OD: 8”
• Roll weight: 6 pounds max

Requirements:

This application required unwinding a roll of polyester lamination film and cutting to length; eliminating static through the process.

Material: .010” x 6.25" wide thick clear plastic with a sputtered gold coating on one side which could not be in contact.

Requirements

Feed and cut to a precision length with a tolerance of +/-.015 inches.

Material:  Absorbent padding 

Requirements:

This application required cutting multiple layers of material.

Material:  Release liner in roll form

Requirements: 

This application required feeding and cutting release liner material.  The cut product needed to exit the unit in such a way that eliminated the need for an operator to remove the trailing edges of the material that was left in the machine.

Material:  Clear plastic in roll form

• Thickness:           0.010” [0.25mm]
• Width:                  6.25” [158.8mm]
• Cut Length:        11” [279.4mm]
• Tolerance:           +/- 0.015” [0.38mm]

Requirements: 

This application required punching and cutting to length a high static material.