New Fully-Automatic Turret Winder
Catbridge Machinery’s new Model 334 is a fully automatic, three-shaft turret slitter rewinder. Capable of winding either cored or coreless, this model comes equipped with a Model 686 shaftless floor-pick-up unwind, automatic core loading, and finished roll discharge. The 334 turret winder offers several features to enhance productivity, cut waste, and improve roll quality. These features include:
- Overhead web path for easy threading and cleanliness
- Shear, score and razor slitting with automatic knife placement available
- Bowed (spreader) roll for positive slit separation
- Small-character inkjet printer to provide lot code on each roll
- Automatic tape application at roll start to form a “false core” for coreless winding or secure the material to the core when running with cores
- Hole punch for end of roll warning, vacuum punched tab removal, and light system verification of successful hole punch
- Positive, driven shear cut-off for clean, precise cut-off of finished rolls
- Automatic transfer and start of new rolls via the Catbridge “roll enveloper” which provides glueless/tapeless, no fold-over starts of new rolls
- Automatic label application to seal finished rolls
- Automatic finished roll discharge
- Automatic core loading from a storage bin which aligns cores in preparation for loading
- Trim removal tubes or traverse winders
- Various roll unloading systems