Roll handling

Colvin, R., Automated Roll Handling Boosts Cast Film Operations Cost Plays a Secondary Role to Improved Productivity, Quality, and Safety, MP Nov. 2000. 

Fully rotating nips with the winder attached are used for HMW-HDPE film because they result in better roll formation for the very low gauge film. If these are used with upward extrusion, it requires dealing with roll handling on the second story. If extrusion is downward, roll handling is easier, but extrusion is complicated. 

Drum dryers are shown in Fig. 3.15c. his consists of a heated metal roll. As the roll rotates, a layer of liquid or slurry is dried. The final dry solid is scraped off the roll. The product comes ofiF in flaked form. Drum dryers are suitable for handling slurries or pastes of solids in fine suspension and are limited to low and moderate throughput. 

The burden must have a definite sohdification temperature to assure proper pickup from the feed pan. This limitation can be overcome by side feeding through an auxiliary rotating spreader roll. Apphcation hmits are further extended by special feed devices for burdens having oxidation-sensitive and/or supercoohng characteristics. The standard double-drum model turns downward, with adjustable roll spacing to control sheet thickness. The newer twin-drum model (Fig. ll-55b) turns upward and, though subject to variable cake thickness, handles viscous and indefinite solidification-temperature-point burden materials well. 

Otner Collectors Tarry particulates and other difficult-to-handle hquids have been collected on a dry, expendable phenol formaldehyde-bonded glass-fiber mat (Goldfield, J. Air Pollut. Control A.SSOC., 20, 466 (1970)] in roll form which is advanced intermittently into a filter frame. Superficial gas velocities are 2.5 to 3.5 m/s (8.2 to 11.5 ft/s), and pressure drop is typically 41 to 46 cm (16 to 18 in) of water. CoUection efficiencies of 99 percent have been obtained on submicrometer particles. Brady [Chem. Eng. Prog., 73(8), 45 (1977)] has discussed a cleanable modification of this approach in which the gas is passed through a reticulated foam filter that is slowly rotated and solvent-cleaned. 

Bar Screens These screens are generally used in handling large and heavy pieces of material. They are formed from rails, rods, or bars, suitably shaped made from rolled steel or castings fixed in parallel position and held by crossbars and spacers. Bars, which taper in thickness from top to bottom and may also taper in width from one end to the other, are recommended because they tend to avoid bhnding. 

The many options available for lift trucks f l into two classes vehicle specialties, which include controls, transmissions, guards, etc. and accessories, which are devices that handle specific types of loads (Fig. 21-55). Included in this second category are high-lift masts, up to 7 m (24 ft) handhng attachments for circular products, such as drums and roll goods attachments such as carton clamps and the fork side-to-side shifting mechanism. 

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