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Shorter PP casting unit.


A new feeding mechanism keeps operators away from pull rolls on thread-up and makes a safer, more compact film casting machine. Bruckner Bruck·ner   , Anton 1824-1896.

Austrian organist and composer whose major works include nine symphonies, a requiem (1848-1849), and Te Deum in C (1881).

Noun 1.
 Formtec GmbH in Germany (U.S. office in Greenville, S.C.) is the first to apply standard safety features adapted from higher-speed biaxial-orientation lines to PP cast film. These features include integrated pull rolls, oscillating os·cil·late  
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1. To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm.

2.
 trim knives knives  
n.
Plural of knife.


knives
Noun

the plural of knife

knives knife
, and a safer, three-step thread-up.

Operators feed a band attached to the film while the rolls are stopped. The rolls are then started, pulling the band and threading See multithreading.

threading - thread
 up the film. Finally, the band and threading film are removed from the winder. Bruckner has sold the first unit for 4.2-meter-wide film. It costs no more than a conventional casting unit but is one-third shorter (5 to 6 meters vs. 8 to 9 meters). It has six to nine pull rolls, depending on the number of corona-treating stations. It's expected to run trials in Bruckner's lab this summer. Tel: (864) 234-7111 * PT Direct: 343TF
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH: Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Apr 1, 2006
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