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Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering Co. Inc: Automatic roll unloading system

Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering (Gloucester, MA) introduces an automatic roll-unloading and recoring system that operates in either manual or automatic mode, stripping finished rolls from the winder’s cantilevered shaft onto an unload table and then loading a preselected number of cores onto the empty shaft.

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The unloaded table then tips the rolls onto a platform from which the operator can pack the rolls. Empty cores are simultaneously reloaded from 1 of 2 large core bins onto the core conveyor prior to the next transfer.

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