Battenfeld Gloucester: New
The new Battenfeld Gloucester Horizontal Oscillating Hauloff, with enhanced performance features, improves soft film processing. The Battenfeld H-nip is able to randomize even the most minor die, air ring, and tower film gauge effects, giving further assurance that wound rolls will be flat and of optimum converter quality. There is zero film contact on the turning bars, thereby minimizing any tendency to form stretch wrinkles.
The new design has a substantial base-mounted support bearing taken from the successful Traversanip Vertical oscillating hauloff. This strategy has a number of advantages unseen in the traditional overhead bearing of competitive horizontal oscillators.
The stable base and lower support bearing prevent the occurrence of nip roll ’sway’, commonly seen in some horizontal nips that utilize an overhead bearing. Battenfeld’s new H-nip design is also more compact than many competitive units, adding 5 - 30 inches (130 - 760 mm) to the die-to-nip distance without adding height to the tower. In tight retrofit applications the increased bubble cooling time this affords can be essential to processing soft and tacky films.
Additional performance features for this hauloff are simplified tower installation, thread ups that can be accomplished by a single-operator, and easy access to nip roll and collapser adjustments, all saving valuable time during installation, startup, and maintenance.