Lenticular micro-lens sheet gets much bigger.A system to make lenticular lenticular /len·tic·u·lar/ (len-tik´u-ler) 1. pertaining to or shaped like a lens. 2. pertaining to the lens of the eye. 3. pertaining to the lenticular nucleus. acrylic sheet for billboard advertising, which started up in China in April, is believed to be the first lenticular line for a large display application. Micro Lens Technology Inc., Matthews, N.C., developed the lens geometry--the size and spacing of lens ridges--which are determined by the intended distance of the viewer from the sheet. Finely ridged lenticular sheet for holograms on greeting cards See e-card. and point-of-purchase displays, which are seen from a few inches or feet away, might have 30 to 60 lenses per inch. Billboard sheets, to be seen from hundreds of feet away, have 10 lenses/in. The sheet line was built by PTi Processing Technologies Inc., Aurora, Ill., with a 5-in., 32:1, 300-hp extruder, screen changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. , gear pump A Gear pump uses the meshing of gears to pump fluid by displacement. They are one of the most common types of pumps for hydraulic fluid power applications. Gear pumps however are also widely used in chemical installations to pump fluid with a certain viscosity. , and static mixer A static mixer is a device for blending (mixing) two liquid materials. The device consists of mixer elements contained in a cylindrical (tube)or squared housing. The static mixer elements consist of a series of baffles that are made from metal or a variety of plastics. . The sheet is precisely trimmed with a digitally controlled, traveling circular saw from the Sakas Div. of Nutter Machine in Hebron, Ohio, and is masked with film in-line to protect the ridges. PTi: (630) 585-5800/PTDirect: 493KB * Nutter: (740) 928-6025/PTDirect: 241ST [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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