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Non-Scratching thickness gauge comes to the U.S. (Keeping up with Extrusion).


A new thickness gauge from Plast-Control Inc., Newburyport, Mass., has four capacitance capacitance, in electricity, capability of a body, system, circuit, or device for storing electric charge. Capacitance is expressed as the ratio of stored charge in coulombs to the impressed potential difference in volts.  thickness sensors mounted inside a 4-in.-diam. roller roller, common name for brightly colored Old World birds noted for performing somersaults in flight. They include the rollers proper (subfamily Coraciinae) and ground rollers (subfamily Brachypteraciinae  with an ultra-low-friction coating. The roller lightly contacts the bubble, rotating ro·tate  
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 at the same speed, which allows it to measure thickness on scratch-sensitive and sticky films without leaving a mark.

The device was shown at K 2001 in Germany last fall and appeared for the first time in the U.S. at a March open house at Reifenhauser Inc. in Ipswich, Mass. This Roller C-Head ran on Reifenhauser's three-layer Filmtec demonstration line with an automatic die. The device is carried on a telescoping telescoping The 'compression' or overlapping of clinical or pathologic features of a disease or lesion that is normally subdivided into chronologic stages of progression  support arm, mounted on an oscillating os·cil·late  
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1. To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm.

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 ring. A load cell in the support arm follows the bubble and maintains contact pressure. The gauge costs about 15% more than a conventional capacitance scanning gauge and is retrofittable to Plast-Control systems. Plast-Control (978) 462-0306, www.plastcontrol.de; Reifenhauser (978) 412-9700, www.Reifenhauser.com
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